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Recent Examples of alleyway
This alleyway, right next to Kyoto’s main Kamo River, is packed with tiny, pristine bars and yakitori, an excellent place to sit outside and watch people—of all ages and nationalities and levels of tipsiness—flow by.
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Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Even if the former second-round pick stays, Allen has a direct alleyway to finish as this season’s David Montgomery in terms of a high-ceiling RB2 fantasy option that propels teams to a title.
—Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Investigators are out of leads in a 2023 north Aurora shooting that left two men dead in an alleyway and are asking for the community’s help, police officials said this week.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Harris took credit for closing a business at the same storefront before Shaltaf took over, when a 16-year-old was shot and killed in 2023 in a nearby alleyway.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
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Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Even if the former second-round pick stays, Allen has a direct alleyway to finish as this season’s David Montgomery in terms of a high-ceiling RB2 fantasy option that propels teams to a title.
—Kambui Bomani, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Investigators are out of leads in a 2023 north Aurora shooting that left two men dead in an alleyway and are asking for the community’s help, police officials said this week.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Harris took credit for closing a business at the same storefront before Shaltaf took over, when a 16-year-old was shot and killed in 2023 in a nearby alleyway.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
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Multiple balconies can be found throughout the property for optimal indoor-outdoor living, and a two-lane bowling alley is situated beside the basement media room.—
India Roby,
Architectural Digest,
16 Sep. 2025
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Other things like bowling alleys and arcades are being included in movie theaters.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Mounted officers and sniffer dogs patrolled the streets near Windsor and Eton Central railway station, monitoring arrivals and maintaining security around the historic town.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Footage of the protests showed Ecuadorians clashing with police forces in the capital city of Quito on Tuesday as protesters dismantled fences and barriers while police fired tear gas in the streets.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Residents have told the Riverworks Development Corporation that many trucks use neighborhood roads instead of sticking to West Vienna Avenue and North Third Street, which are the two thoroughfares bordering the warehouse.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Since its opening in mid-June, the experimental project has driven a 25 percent increase in total sales across the West Nanjing Road thoroughfare.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The same goes for the highway—in fact, potential customers would be hard-pressed to find better in this department for the price offered.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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Along a dirt road off the narrow highway that hugs the northern shore the taro leaves extend like waving hands from the quilt of rectangular pools so shallow that the birds in them stand with their leg joints exposed.—
Matt Negrin,
Rolling Stone,
20 Sep. 2025
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The plan for the roadway that stretches across the Hagginwood and Del Paso Heights neighborhoods of North Sacramento will later go before the City Council for approval.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Flash flooding currents are strong and can sweep drivers off roadways.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
17 Sep. 2025
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On a spring day in 1869, at a salon on one of Paris’s bustling boulevards, a group of prominent thinkers — including some of Pasteur’s close colleagues — discussed science’s future.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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And there’s nothing tomblike about the constant rumble of traffic from the boulevard outside.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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