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The elderly people across the street are trapped inside with no supplies; the one woman who had the bad judgment to go jogging, pre-enclosure, comes back ragged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Problems can occur, especially in people with poor kidney function or rare inherited conditions, which is why this is not a harmless wellness drip to be sold on the high street.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
"When people become apathetic, they stop observing the street," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Leigh-Ann, on how Rodrigo has shown up as a neighbor: Rod, as most of the block calls him, is a retiree who lives with his wife across the street from me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The faint sputter of a motorcar came from down the street, and a few minutes later a train on Alameda rattled on the rails as it headed to the railyard just beyond Chinatown.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
"Just as we are displaced in the streets, the bees are also displaced on the rooftops."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
This is what appears to have happened in January 2025, when leaflets were dropped from an aircraft onto the streets of Culiacán.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Vaccines, masking, improved indoor air quality and acquired immunity have all kept the virus at bay so that morgue trucks no longer fill the streets.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Other migrants took to sleeping on the streets of residential areas away from the centre of Ceuta as the territory's reception facilities struggled to cope.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The truck had no springs and bounced roughly over the bomb-pitted streets of The Hague.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
