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Without a studio deal or traditional packaging, the young trio’s goal has been to build an independent empire from the backstreets of London to the heart of Hollywood.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
That includes brick walls like Chicago backstreets, memorabilia from the Windy City's sports teams, other Chicago pictures and a wall with Illinois license plates that were brought in by customers.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Guys on mopeds are whizzing around the backstreets like dragonflies.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 May 2025
Minimalist rooms From $200 Book now With just 31 rooms spread across 10 floors, Tsuki is a slender boutique hotel tucked into the quiet backstreets between Tsukiji Market and Ginza.
—Yukari Sakamoto, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
That includes brick walls like Chicago backstreets, memorabilia from the Windy City's sports teams, other Chicago pictures and a wall with Illinois license plates that were brought in by customers.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Guys on mopeds are whizzing around the backstreets like dragonflies.
—Daisy Jones, Vogue, 30 May 2025
Minimalist rooms From $200 Book now With just 31 rooms spread across 10 floors, Tsuki is a slender boutique hotel tucked into the quiet backstreets between Tsukiji Market and Ginza.
—Yukari Sakamoto, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstreet
Noun
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During the riots, Hamida witnesses a girl paraded naked on the streets.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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City officials estimated the revenue from Disney parks attendance and parking would generate $108 million to $164 million annually toward the city’s day-to-day operations, such as providing police and fire services, operating libraries and maintaining city streets.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Where to stay On a quiet side street in the Latin Quarter, near the Jardin des Plantes and a 30-minute stroll from the catacombs is the Le Jardin de Verre by Locke, which opened in March 2025.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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Her home in a pre-World War II building on a leafy Berlin side street has a bohemian, somewhat temporary air.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Future of eVTOLs In the longer term, Goldstein sees a future where eVTOLs are ubiquitous in the skies above American cities, flying in designated, but invisible, sky highways to ensure safety.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
25 Oct. 2025
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Violette_FR’s new London home has large windows and a separate entrance facing Carnaby Street, the historic shopping thoroughfare that’s crowded with locals and tourists alike.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
26 Oct. 2025
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Macy’s chose China Grove for the facility due to its position in the Southeast near major thoroughfares, enabling faster, more efficient service to millions of customers.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Oct. 2025
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America’s hometown has open arms for all things Mexican food, with choices up and down the main boulevards.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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His civic service helped lay the groundwork for a parks and boulevards system that remains a defining feature of Kansas City’s identity.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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Two days later, her car was found on Avery’s lot in a thicket of branches with a disconnected battery.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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With less than one week until Election Day, Virginia residents will head to the ballot box to cast their votes for three statewide offices that will determine whether the executive branch remains under Republican control.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Oct. 2025
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Thousands of miles of secondary roads are still paved this way today.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
2 Aug. 2025
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Black ice is expected to form, especially on secondary roads and areas with runoff from melting snow.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Backstreet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstreet. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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