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Recent Examples of alleyway
The shooting was reported around 1:20 p.m. near 30th and Market streets in an alleyway about a block away from Kimbrough Elementary School, Officer Colin Steinbroner said.
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Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The current parents were nostalgic for their own alleyway childhoods.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
One alleyway leads to little toy shops, another to electronics shops with the craziest things.
—Eric Wilson, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Can With Serious Injuries By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter
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A dog has been rescued in Missouri after he was found with severe injuries and tied to two dumpsters in an alleyway.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
The current parents were nostalgic for their own alleyway childhoods.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
One alleyway leads to little toy shops, another to electronics shops with the craziest things.
—Eric Wilson, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Can With Serious Injuries By Alice Gibbs Senior Life and Trends Reporter
Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member
news article
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A dog has been rescued in Missouri after he was found with severe injuries and tied to two dumpsters in an alleyway.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alleyway
Noun
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For all his careful planning, Tommy (Gabriel Luna) is the one who ends up boxed into an alley looking up at a Bloater.—
Rafael Motamayor,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2025
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Police then pursued the suspect into the rear alley of the apartment complex, where a police shooting took place.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Others left in their cars, dodging bodies that lay in the streets.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The restaurant serves terrific pizza and even better cheesesteaks that draw long lines running down the street or, some days, up the street the other way, just to keep life interesting.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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The northernmost stretches of the road, and other thoroughfares stitching together Fort Worth’s northern outskirts, have had to cope with intense population booms in recent years.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2025
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The investigation has streets blocked around the intersection of two main thoroughfares, Northwest 183rd Street and Northwest Seventh Avenue.—
David J. Neal,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2025
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From Stagecoach, the California native will head to Las Vegas with his current road band — guitarist Joe Satriani, drummer Kenny Aronoff and former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony — to launch a residency at the Park MGM casino.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Into every corner it’s resolutely planted to the road and the small steering wheel gives it a racing car feel.—
Trinity Francis,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Here's what traffic is looking like today on Kansas 10 highway between Kansas City and Lawrence.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
25 Apr. 2025
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Fewer vehicles on our roads also lessen the need for costly and harmful highway expansions, which consistently fail to reduce traffic.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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The nearly 12-mile stretch of I-4 in Orange and Osceola counties between State Road 528 and State Road 429 jumped to first place among the most clogged roadways in the nation in 2023 after ranking tenth the previous year, according to INRIX.—
Natalia Jaramillo,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2025
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The highway between the cities and parks is your average roadway, with gas stations, restaurants, and the like.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Apr. 2025
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Inside Austin’s bitcoin clubhouse Bitcoin Commons sits on the second floor of the Littlefield Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street — where the broad boulevard to the Capitol collides with the noisy sprawl of Austin’s nightlife district.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
12 Apr. 2025
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At its best, that’s what the Champs Élysées tastes like—like walking the boulevard early summer, the sunlight cascading through the chestnut trees.—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Alleyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleyway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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