subway
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A. As a native New Yorker, I grew up with countless cuisines just a subway ride away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In Kyiv, more than 56,000 people took shelter in the city’s subway stations, according to city authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Residents flooded stations of the Kyiv subway, which have doubled as shelters during the war.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Truelove told her he preferred living in a subway tunnel to being on the street, because people didn’t bother him down there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Years earlier, on his way to meet a Soviet agent in New York City, Ames accidentally left his briefcase on the subway.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Longtime critics of subways used the explosion to stoke community fears that tunneling would lead to exploding homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Philadelphia’s World Cup host organization said Monday that it will offer free public transit to fans who are traveling home from Lincoln Financial Field via the state’s Septa system, which operates buses, subways and trains.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026
Instead, he insists that subways are public and should be free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
As Rahiem said, “Amiri and I were just projecting our voices over the loud subways coming in and out of the stations,” not knowing at first that they’d become famous.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2025
He rode subways and buses, learning the routes and stops.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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