bodega
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So yeah, you can go into the bodega and pretend to be American.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Subsidized goods for a low price may be a nice change at first, just have the common courtesy to not let the door hit your favorite bodega owner on the way out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
The sequence in Episode 2, when the bodega is raided and people are dragged away by the Anti-Vigilante Task Force, that was filmed before Los Angeles, before Minnesota — before all of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Praised for warding off pests, so-called bodega cats are also a cultural fixture for New Yorkers, some of whom are now pushing to enshrine legal rights for the little store helpers.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Jasmin crawls down a steep flight of stairs to a tiny bodega below.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Private mini-markets and clothing stores with well-stocked shelves have largely supplanted state "bodegas" and ration books in the past five years since SMEs were introduced.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
This means the Mamdami Marts will be able to undercut prices at the private grocery stores and bodegas in their neighborhoods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
It was near midnight, and he was gliding between stalls and bodegas, activating the city’s Muslim community—roughly 9 percent of New Yorkers—with his now signature mix of warmth and urgency.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2025
We go into different bodegas for water, Icees, chips, sunflower seeds, and it’s all as easy as the warm summer breeze.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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