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The family imploded, and there’s something almost novelistic in the trajectory—from cramped newspaper offices in Adelaide and Fleet Street to Lachlan Murdoch as the custodian of a journalistic enterprise’s fetid remains.—Andrew O’Hagan, New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2026 Green Route buses will be rerouted from Fleet Street and Broadway, south of Fayette Street, to provide service to portions of Orleans Street and North Broadway.—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025 Fisher, meanwhile, is a Broadway vet with credits including Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Moulin Rouge!—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025 The couple met on the set of Planet of the Apes (2001) and went on to collaborate on eight films, including Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010).—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Fleet Street
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Fleet Street, London, England, center of the London newspaper district