gutter
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Recently Park spoke to the Times about the hardest parts of writing his new memoir, the importance of Project Blowed and taking his underground rap mentality with him from the gutter to the stars.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” wrote Oscar Wilde.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
The persistent plunk, plunk, plunk of icicles dripping into an aluminum gutter — a sound that is less birdsong than plumbing.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
Mr Vernon said he landed in a gutter and saw the car passing to his left.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025
She looks around the street but it is dark and empty, only a crisp breeze blowing through, rustling the leaves in the gutter.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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