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Recent Examples of pedestrian
Hiwot Abebe, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2024
Danger growing on Indianapolis streets as city works to protect pedestrians and bicyclists
How many pedestrians have died in Indianapolis in 2024?
—Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2024
Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2022
The eRV2 has a range of just 108 miles, which is even less than the e-RV’s rather pedestrian 125-mile range.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
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Noun
Sharing space with cars, buses, and motorcycles on the hectic streets of Addis is a dangerous pursuit—even for pedestrians.
—Hiwot Abebe, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2024
Danger growing on Indianapolis streets as city works to protect pedestrians and bicyclists
How many pedestrians have died in Indianapolis in 2024?
—Jordan Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
Almost exactly 24 hours after the 2016 CZ31 event, at 7:37 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 30, the much larger 2013 CU83 asteroid, this one as big as 1,050 feet across, will swing by Earth at a relatively pedestrian 13,100 miles per hour, at over 3 million miles away.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2022
The eRV2 has a range of just 108 miles, which is even less than the e-RV’s rather pedestrian 125-mile range.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2023
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For one, bedbugs don’t fly, are lousy walkers, and must hitch a ride to travel any significant distance.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Start between 8:45-9:30 a.m. Dec. 7, Orange Parking Garage at Disney Springs, Level 4, Row 13, 1530 E Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, $4 per person, free for walkers ages 12 or younger who do not want credit, 801-554-7132, midfloridamilers.org.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
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But to play to that dichotomy is a tightrope walk: lean too far one way and Indy becomes boring, either as too normal or a superhero.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eggnog Eggnog is a hard sell because most people have only had the bad kind, those boring and occasionally gross cartons that line the dairy section of the supermarket every December.Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 9 Dec. 2024
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That will be a welcome change from an unusually slow offseason so far, but there’s no chance Sasaki will sign with his new team this week.Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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No one knows for sure why the rally happens but some experts attribute it to such seasonal things as holiday shopping and investors wrapping up their books before the end of the year, ahead of a slower January.Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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For the people stupid enough to have trusted a midwit career bureaucrat as unscrupulous as President Joe Biden, there’s a sixth stage just before acceptance: delusion.Becket Adams, National Review, 8 Dec. 2024
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Wild Card with Rachel Martin Issa Rae on the belief that gets her through 'stupid mistakes and bad decisions' Lithgow: More.Rachel Martin, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
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Popular Nail Polish Colors For Every Month 01 of 08 Short Nails Long nails have undeniably been the most popular nail length for the past five years—or perhaps more—however people seem to be tiring of the upkeep of long nails, no matter if natural or faux.Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
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Parenting can be tiring but any mom or dad will tell you there are moments of magic sprinkled through every bit of the day-to-day grind.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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In both cases, the Lakers could receive enough assets to begin a rebuilding project that their weary fans would surely support.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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At the center of the story are Phil (Timothy Spall) and Penny (Lesley Manville), a weary, unmarried couple burdened by their lack of love for each other and their crumbling household.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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While congressional hearings are often dull set pieces, this one offered a remarkably lively and informative discussion of the practicalities and opportunities facing America regarding space resources.Greg Autry, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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For her, the glory of the honeymoon had been in the planning, the dreaming, the building up in her mind; what a letdown to find that Paris was just a place, that some days were full of chill gray drizzle, that the dull, thick bodies of other tourists blocked her from full joy.Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Pedestrian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedestrian. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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