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To get us to the sketchy backstreets of our comfort zones.
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Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2024
Though little more than a tiny room off a backstreet, this Chinatown food shop Nai Mong Hoi Thod is hardly Bangkok's secret.
—Tom Parker Bowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2024
Now, passengers can embark upon the Wild Malaysia itinerary, a three-night round-trip from Singapore that travels north through Malaysia’s jungles, allowing passengers to disembark in the rainforests of Taman Negara National Park and wander the smoky backstreets and old quarters of Penang Island.
—Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2024
As those all-white krewes rolled down the main streets of the parade routes, the real Mardi Gras was taking place in the backstreets of the surrounding Black neighborhoods.
—Cierra Chenier, Essence, 12 Feb. 2024
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Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2024
Though little more than a tiny room off a backstreet, this Chinatown food shop Nai Mong Hoi Thod is hardly Bangkok's secret.
—Tom Parker Bowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2024
Now, passengers can embark upon the Wild Malaysia itinerary, a three-night round-trip from Singapore that travels north through Malaysia’s jungles, allowing passengers to disembark in the rainforests of Taman Negara National Park and wander the smoky backstreets and old quarters of Penang Island.
—Monisha Rajesh, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2024
As those all-white krewes rolled down the main streets of the parade routes, the real Mardi Gras was taking place in the backstreets of the surrounding Black neighborhoods.
—Cierra Chenier, Essence, 12 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backstreet
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Dressed in colorful costumes, dozens of children, and plenty of adults, representing Krewe de Prank and other local Mardi Gras krewes marched in a Mardi Gras parade Sunday that snaked through the streets of the West Side neighborhood in Kansas City.—
Emily Curiel,
Kansas City Star,
3 Mar. 2025
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The city made two additional calls over that weekend, including one saying some entries fit the description of a crack in the street rather than a pothole.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
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His jump into a world tour comes as no surprise — Seavey has been anxious to hit the road.—
Kristen Wisneski,
Billboard,
7 Mar. 2025
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Rainwater tends to stockpile on the edges of roads.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Mar. 2025
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The fire department uses chains to help vehicles gain traction on side streets and going up hills.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2025
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After hot and secondary routes are cleared, crews will treat them with salt before moving onto neighborhood side streets.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2025
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Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.—
Kansas City Star Bot,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2025
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But the town’s cohesion frayed in the late twentieth century as factories shuttered, leaving behind dangerous pollution, and the construction of an interstate highway demolished the historic downtown.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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As armored tanks drove down the main thoroughfare, scared and teary-eyed residents acknowledged being at a total loss.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
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Another ordinance gives squirrels the right of way on all public streets, sidewalks and thoroughfares in Olney, and implements a $750 fine for harassing one.—
Michelle Mastro,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Excepting a limited few number of supercars, there’s very little that can hope to keep up with this vehicle in a boulevard sprint.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Minneapolis may soon require gardeners to get a permit for their planter boxes in the boulevard strip between the sidewalk and street.—
Kyle Stokes,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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It also was sent to federal judges and other employees of the court system, who make up a separate branch of government and don't answer to the President or the White House.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Over the years, Native Americans, whose tribes had been forcibly removed to other states, protested the exhibit that later became the Dickson Mounds Museum, a branch of the Illinois State Museum.—
Mary Hudetz,
ProPublica,
25 Feb. 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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As of Tuesday morning, crews spread 1.8 million gallons of brine on hundreds of miles of interstates, highways and secondary roads, Stein said.—
Joe Marusak and,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Backstreet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backstreet. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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