side street
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“The heat doesn’t bother me much,” he said, unloading his bicycle — a blue and yellow 1989 Trek 400 — from the trunk of his car on a side street in Reseda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“We are going to be looking around, and we are staying with the group, not going on a side street, and not gather unnecessarily.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
The shrine was tucked away down a side street on the edge of the city - a low-roofed room crowded with carved figures.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025
His book is, on one level, a relic of a lost moment — a time before the Iranian revolution, when Afghanistan was a place a young traveler could "wander down a dreamy side street."
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
In Nashville we temporarily lost our parents because Uncle turned down a side street when he spotted a pawnshop.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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