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subway

noun as in underground railroad

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If identified, this information could help to make subway air less polluted.

She couldn’t imagine the hassle of riding the subway while she was pregnant, and if we were in New York, that’s what she would have had to be doing.

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I stayed in subway station entrances and fed myself with what I found in the street.

In an announcement, the FTA said Metro’s project will “test and evaluate the effectiveness of enhanced air filtration and purification technologies on its subway cars.”

In 2019, the Daily News reported that Gonzalez admitted during his deposition that he never spoke to Osei on the subway platform that night despite indicating that he did in his criminal complaint.

Other footage shows him fleeing, keeping to a quick walk, jogging briefly, then walking again as he heads for a subway station.

A 59-year-old retired subway train driver, who gave his name only as Artist, admitted that he had family members in the NYPD.

Think of the embarrassing subway platform or mid-office “adjustment” debacles you could avoid!

They waved down a pair of responding cops who followed the alleged cop killer into the subway.

After he allegedly unloaded on the cops, Brinsley attempted to make a getaway to a nearby subway.

He had a cigaret in his mouth but waited until he was outside the subway entrance before he put a match to it.

He picked up his change and headed back for the subway and his two-room apartment in the Village.

Death stood on the Times Square subway platform, uptown side, waiting for a subject.

But he commanded a clear view of the street and anybody coming up it toward the subway.

That subway affair was ghastly, useful as it did prove to me.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subway, such as: metro, underground, chute, and tube.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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