street
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After "about two seconds", he and sound recordist Lulu "started running down the street".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Coming from Victorville, he wasn’t used to areas with no light and didn’t understand how it could travel through different tunnels down the street, reflecting so spectacularly off high-rise buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was just another guy living on a busy city street.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
In September 2001, The Wall Street Journal’s main newsroom was right across the street from the World Trade Center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
While I’m fiddling with the radio, a traffic report comes in about how backed up the street that we normally drive on is.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
As more cats arrive at overwhelmed shelters — from the streets or surrendered by owners in crisis — some shelters resort to euthanasia: a practice that’s on the rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Posters of a beaming Modi line streets across New Delhi to welcome the leaders, with heavy deployments of security forces across the capital and widespread traffic restrictions.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Chinal was stationed at FDNY’s Engine Company 10 on Liberty and Greenwich streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The restaurant was perched on the top floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, about 1,350 feet above the streets of lower Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The side streets were still unpaved, fading out to the barren pebbly lots of a railyard and a gas plant.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
