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backstreets

noun

plural of backstreet
as in streets

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstreets
  1. streets
  2. roads
  3. highways
  4. thoroughfares
  5. crossroads
  6. boulevards
  7. branches
  8. arteries
Noun
  • Some streets in Norfolk, Virginia, were closed Wednesday due to flooding and several are expected to be impassable during high tide Thursday, City Councilman Thomas Smigiel said in a social media post.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The most famous photograph of the early Second World War is of a Frenchman weeping at the sight of Nazi soldiers parading through the streets of Marseilles in 1940.
    — Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • The roads initially served a military purpose, the professor added.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • As the post-2021 conflict intensified, military checkpoints proliferated on major roads across the country.
    — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern cite 500-plus supportive customers, more than 2,000 filed statements, and backers including trucking giant Knight-Swift and a claim of 2 million fewer truckloads on highways.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • For decades, the story has focused on population loss, empty storefronts, highways that divided neighborhoods and a downtown that too often goes quiet after work.
    — Mark Taylor, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • The massive project funded from 13 federal, state and local agencies, gives a glimpse of what’s to come for Long Beach thoroughfares.
    — Barbara Kingsley-Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Two years later, Wong became one of the key leaders of the city’s Umbrella Movement protests that rallied thousands of predominantly young people to the streets to call for greater democracy by blocking major thoroughfares for 79 straight days.
    — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of thoroughfares
Noun
  • America is at a critical crossroads for the type of future in store beyond issues of affordability, groceries and gas prices due to global conflicts.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In January of 2024, at a crossroads of an already long and accomplished professional baseball career, Chris Sale was willing to try something — anything — new.
    — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of crossroads
Noun
  • Visitors often still liken the city’s walkable streets and historic architecture to European boulevards.
    — Colleen McNally Arnett, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026
  • There were beautiful boulevards, sweeping bridges over the Moskva River, wide Stalin-era avenues lined with imposing granite buildings, and quiet nineteenth-century neighborhoods of pastel-colored mansions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of boulevards
Noun
  • Grab some pruning shears and tidy up any branches that jut out of place or block pathways and important sightlines.
    — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Taylor represents one of the many branches that’s continually sprouting from the Nick Saban coaching tree, having worked under the legendary coach at Alabama as a graduate assistant from 2007 to 2008.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of branches
Noun
  • The collapse is centered on one of the world’s busiest arteries.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The teen needed reconstruction of the subclavian artery, as well as removal of blood clots from several other arteries, and surgery to cut through fascia to relieve compartment syndrome, or pressure buildup around muscles, on his right arm.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of arteries
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“Backstreets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstreets. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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