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It’s bisected by La Cienega Boulevard, a thoroughfare that carries six lanes of high-speed traffic through the gritty landscape of the oil field, which feels like a relic of old L.A.

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Ginsberg lives on the Lower East Side in what Hujar calls “the most rundown tenement,” not far from a cluster of the burned-out buildings that marked New York’s gritty ’70s.

It stung their eyes and felt gritty in their mouths.

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Britain's Cameron Norrie described his upset of Carlos Alcaraz as "the biggest win of my career" as he reached the Paris Masters last 16 with a gritty comeback against the world number one.

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"They're a little bit gritty and the people are defensive of their city."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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