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Recent Examples of alleyway
The video posted to social media includes dispatch audio from relaying a 911 call reporting a ski mask had been found in an alleyway near her garage, located at 100 E First Avenue in Ajo, Arizona – located approximately 135 miles from Tucson.
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 12 Feb. 2026
Lighton clarified that the scene Skarsgård referred to was the first blow job Colin (Melling) gives Ray (Skarsgård) in the alleyway after their Christmas Day date.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026
The scene in question takes place early in the film, when Skarsgård's macho biker, Ray, takes Harry Melling's nebbish Colin into an alleyway for oral sex.
—Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
People sat on curbs, alleyway after alleyway, their meager belongings soaked by the previous night’s hard rain.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 12 Feb. 2026
Lighton clarified that the scene Skarsgård referred to was the first blow job Colin (Melling) gives Ray (Skarsgård) in the alleyway after their Christmas Day date.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026
The scene in question takes place early in the film, when Skarsgård's macho biker, Ray, takes Harry Melling's nebbish Colin into an alleyway for oral sex.
—Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
People sat on curbs, alleyway after alleyway, their meager belongings soaked by the previous night’s hard rain.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
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Chicago’s alleys could do the same.—
Liam Stanton,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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One young attendee could be seen lying unconscious in vomit in an alley along West Broadway while his friend called the police.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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Magen David Adom, Israel's rescue service, released video showing a large crater in a street and shrapnel damage to an apartment building.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Mar. 2026
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At the spring 2026 collections last September and October, runway fantasies like bows and face paint seeped right off the runways and into the streets.—
Irene Kim,
Vogue,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The architecture of Pride Cleaners stands in stark contrast to Chatham’s bungalows and courtyard apartments and the classical revival ornamentation of 79th Street’s commercial thoroughfare.—
Elizabeth Blasius,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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The triptych is along the wall in a main thoroughfare of the museum facing the floor-to-ceiling windows that form part of the building’s bridge over Wilshire Boulevard.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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The Chancellor Gordon Brown reacted by cutting duty on ultra-low sulphur petrol, freezing duty on other grades of motor fuel, putting more vehicles into the lowest vehicle excise duty band — a tax cut for most lorries — and taxing foreign truckers using British roads.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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The road is closed from exit 1A to I-35 North in Overland Park.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2026
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In San Diego County alone, his namesakes include a park, a highway, a recreation center and multiple schools.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2026
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The truck came with a set of P 275/65/18 all-season highway tires that rode nicely and helped the truck achieve pretty decent fuel economy (for a truck with a very thirsty reputation) and a range of over 500 miles.—
Bryan Rogala,
Outside,
19 Mar. 2026
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That plan describes a roadway overmatched by the Treasure Valley’s western spread — what was essentially a rural highway to market now swallowed by cities.—
Mark Dee
March 17,
Idaho Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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Drivers were asked to avoid South Watt Avenue and Jackson Road, with roadways in the area expected to remain closed for several hours as authorities investigated at the scene.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, the threat of AI reshaping the business of making films looms, and the specter of industry collapse, of American cities hollowed out by manufacturing jobs going overseas and workers made obsolete by new technologies, hangs heavy over the boulevards and palm trees of Los Angeles.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Feedback for the Fruitridge plan, which runs between Riverside and Stockton boulevards, remains open through April 4.—
Madison Smalstig,
Sacbee.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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