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subway

[suhb-wey] / ˈsʌbˌweɪ /
NOUN
underground railroad
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Her brother-in-law evacuated a subway stop near the Twin Towers and walked over the Brooklyn Bridge as the soles of his shoes melted from the ground heat, she said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

So I took the subway to a stop that put me a couple of blocks east of the towers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

The suspect approached a man who had just exited the subway and was standing with his wife waiting to cross the street, Tisch told a news conference.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

“We do not have the land to allow an unlimited growth of private cars,” Lee said at a 1988 ceremony marking the opening of the city-state’s subway.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Since he first learned what he could do, that the people he sometimes saw at school, on the street, on the subway, weren’t visible to anyone else.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Fans by the hundreds take over streets and subways and sports bars, expressing generally well-behaved passion for their teams and countries.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

What sets robotaxis apart is the privacy it offers that can’t be found on crowded subways or even in a traditional taxicab.

From MarketWatch Dec. 24, 2025

She thinks the subways are already dangerous and filthy, and worries about the state of them next year when her oldest child needs to take public transit alone.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 24, 2025

The Taylors began performing impromptu shows in New York City subways and became international sensations in 2018 when a video of them playing “Eight Days a Week” went viral.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2025

Otherwise, we’d have to take two subways from Queens to Manhattan and then the ferry.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar




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