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Recent Examples of backstreet
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.
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Yukari Sakamoto, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Lamia is laser-focused on fulfilling her cake-baking duty, but Bibi has made this trip with another purpose, one that divides the two and sets Lamia on a quest through the city’s thoroughfares and backstreets and bustling souk, with its hawkers and their wares.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
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.
—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
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Yukari Sakamoto, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Lamia is laser-focused on fulfilling her cake-baking duty, but Bibi has made this trip with another purpose, one that divides the two and sets Lamia on a quest through the city’s thoroughfares and backstreets and bustling souk, with its hawkers and their wares.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstreet
Noun
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Meanwhile, eerie creatures lurk in the city streets, waiting.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Just In Time, the Bobby Darin bio-musical starring Jonathan Groff, was the street’s priciest option, with an average ticket price of $231.84, followed by Hamilton at $207.65.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And because of the powertrain’s development, the engineers on the Formula E team can now feed data back to the road car programme in Nissan’s Japan headquarters.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Where are evacuations and which roads have been closed?—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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There is no sign outside, just two purple lights on a quiet Over-the-Rhine side street, giving it the feel of a 1920s speakeasy.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
31 July 2025
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Gephart said the police have been flooded with complaints from residents for nearly two years that guests at the mosque and brewery park on side streets, take spots from homeowners or their visitors, block driveways or, near King Jugg, create disturbances.—
John Tuohy,
IndyStar,
23 July 2025
Noun
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Neither person in the vehicle was injured, and the eastbound lane of the highway was closed for over an hour.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Bus riders bake on unsheltered streets and homeless people seek refuge under highway overpasses.—
Sam Bloch
August 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The proposal would not only include metered parking along Bardstown and Baxter, but also several side streets off the thoroughfare.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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In New York City, heavy rains halted traffic along a major east-west thoroughfare in Queens, east of Manhattan.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Its placement is to coincide with a more expansive Southwest Boulevard reconstruction plan, which is to include bike lanes, stamped concrete sidewalks and landscaping, including more trees along the length of the boulevard.—
Eric Adler
August 17,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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But as freeways expanded and fewer people used Beach Boulevard as a path to their destinations, the motels that once thrived on their business began to struggle and the boulevard saw more illicit activities.—
Michael Slaten,
Oc Register,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Chiu is an official and pastor of the U.S. branch of Olivet Assembly and is listed in a 2023 990 as Chairman of Great Commission University's board.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh
Naveed Jamali,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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The pair sits on the same branch, looking around and scratching.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
11 Aug. 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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Although the current forecast is not expected to cause major travel impacts, secondary roads and overpasses will likely be impacted across Middle Tennessee Monday evening and into the night, said the weather service.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Backstreet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstreet. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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