Main Street
noun
1
: the principal street of a small town
2
a
: the sections of a country centering about its small towns
b
: a place or environment characterized by materialistic self-complacent provincialism
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America is your neighbors volunteering to run local elections or joining the PTA or helping out with a Main Street parade or a county fair or a town-wide fish fry.
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Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Hughes also touted her work on the Main Street Bounceback Program, which offered $10,000 grants to businesses moving into vacant spaces with funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
—Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Residential cameras on Indian Hills Drive in Moscow first recorded the white sedan, followed by security cameras at the Sunset Mart gas station in the 1300 block of Main Street, about a half-mile east of the King Road home.
—Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 26 Sep. 2025
Walking both Main Street to the east of the venue and Kessler Road to the west will mean a steep climb on the way to the concert.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
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Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Hughes also touted her work on the Main Street Bounceback Program, which offered $10,000 grants to businesses moving into vacant spaces with funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
—Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Residential cameras on Indian Hills Drive in Moscow first recorded the white sedan, followed by security cameras at the Sunset Mart gas station in the 1300 block of Main Street, about a half-mile east of the King Road home.
—Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 26 Sep. 2025
Walking both Main Street to the east of the venue and Kessler Road to the west will mean a steep climb on the way to the concert.
—Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Main Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Main%20Street. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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