street
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You walk down the street with him and there’s a bunch of ConEd guys digging a hole in the street — you think, “Uh-oh, these guys are gonna want him to sign their jackhammer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Hu, who works in real estate and construction, has lived for two decades on a street in Ashburn, Va., that backs up to a wooded conservation easement where, she thought, nothing could be built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Phone notifications were sent to millions across Ukraine late Sunday warning of a "nuclear alert", a "chemical threat" and even "street fights" in Kyiv.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
That said, if you ask the average person on the street how the country is doing, you’d probably get a much darker assessment of America.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
I hurried down the street to the bookseller one wintry afternoon, bought a whole new set of ledgers, and started in to impose method on madness.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Recent months have seen trade unions mobilise against austerity measures with rolling protests that have brought tens of thousands of people into the streets.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
“A lot of money was being spent on addressing the impacts of homelessness ... without addressing why people were on the streets in the first place,” Raman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The winner of the Voice UK says she decided "I was going to be Taylor Swift" as a teenager after being given a guitar, before busking on the streets of Cardiff.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Heavily-armed police officers have started patrolling Sydney's streets, as part of heightened security measures following last year's deadly shooting at Bondi Beach.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
In fact, there is no one on the streets but us.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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