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bodega

[boh-day-guh, baw-the-gah] / boʊˈdeɪ gə, bɔˈðɛ gɑ /




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Bero is prominently featured in “Brand New Day” when Holland’s Peter Parker is shopping at a bodega.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

She started filling up her son’s closet, and soon enough, she found herself selling her other finds out of a bodega in her garage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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

When Mrs. Flores came into Mr. Rodriguez’s bodega she said that it was strange that Angela had predicted Poli’s death.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers

But as state "bodegas" disappear, the "libreta" ration book that symbolized equal access to affordable food for all is being quietly shelved.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

You may miss stocking up in well-lit superstores but enjoy getting to know shopkeepers who run tiny bodegas.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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 got bodegas on both ends, which is cool, and a whole bunch of what my mom calls "interesting" folks who live in the middle.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds


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