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Recent Examples of backstreet
The scent successfully imagines itself as a night spent meandering some new city, getting lost under the stars and city lights, and yet you’re never lost in those backstreets, no matter how foreign.
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Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
By Elizabeth Logan March 10, 2025 Paras Griffin/Getty Images
Is backstreet back?
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2025
Lamai Fresh Coconut Ice Cream Located on a backstreet in Lamai, this mom-and-pop shop is all about vegan ice cream made with coconut milk.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
Like Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the drama emphasizes the risks of backstreet terminations as well as the shame and expense that prevent access.
—Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
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Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
By Elizabeth Logan March 10, 2025 Paras Griffin/Getty Images
Is backstreet back?
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2025
Lamai Fresh Coconut Ice Cream Located on a backstreet in Lamai, this mom-and-pop shop is all about vegan ice cream made with coconut milk.
—Christina Liao, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
Like Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the drama emphasizes the risks of backstreet terminations as well as the shame and expense that prevent access.
—Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstreet
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Small blue and red Juneteenth flag with a star and the date June 19, 1865, waving in the wind at a street vendor's stall in front of shops on 125th Street in Harlem, New York...—
Nuri Kino,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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But if Israel continues striking the regime’s tools of repression, space may open for Iranians to return to the streets.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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All evacuation warnings have been lifted and roads reopened, the Sheriff’s Office said.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 June 2025
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William Saller emphasizes that the long road, although more challenging, usually leads to something far more meaningful.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
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Its clifftop location gives a more isolated feel, and quiet seems to be only a side street away from the main piazza.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
17 June 2025
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Listeners can hear peddlers calling out their wares, children singing in courtyards, band music echoing on side streets and immigrant voices drifting through Midtown Manhattan.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 June 2025
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The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet travel on highways or to the airport.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
24 June 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,
24 June 2025
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One group of protesters blocked the 101 Freeway — a major thoroughfare in downtown Los Angeles.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
10 June 2025
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Murders most often took place in markets, squares, and thoroughfares—all key nodes of medieval urban life—in the evenings or on weekends.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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Two Black men pick up a white woman hitchhiking on the boulevard.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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Kin Thai’s menu tours the streets of Thailand, sampling food from stands on Bangkok’s major boulevards to bike-riding vendors in the rural countryside.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
14 June 2025
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Will Ferrell briefly stepped in as the boss of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, then James Spader took the helm for a season.—
Daysia Tolentino,
EW.com,
25 June 2025
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Binoculars mean the difference between seeing a little gray bird and identifying a titmouse, cheering a home run and seeing the epic catch, or realizing that the 10-point buck is actually a doe standing in front of dead branches.—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
25 June 2025
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Parker said most highways are in decent shape, and road crews will focus on frontage and secondary roads.—
Remington Miller,
arkansasonline.com,
11 Jan. 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 3 Jul. 2025.
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