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[street] / strit /


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“I didn’t want that clean, wholesome life ... It felt so fake. I identified with real people, oppressed people who were outside that life. I wanted to taste real life — street life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Down the street from Bar Roma at a high-end furniture store, retired lawyer Alice Withaar, 65 years old, was looking for a sofa, a coffee table and two side chairs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

If Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car had taken a different turn on that Sarajevo street in 1914, how might the 20th century have been different?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But a new wave of large-scale military mobilisations could trigger street protests, he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

For that matter how long would curious eyes up and down the street continue to believe that one small watch shop was quite as busy as it appeared?

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Public transport was operating and a few shops were open, while pro-government forces patrolled the streets.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

He says his work towards an MBA in business management from the Berlin School of Business and Innovation took his mind off the pressure and noise on the streets of Porto.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The only civilian in the surrounding streets is trying to fix a tire on his car, punctured by debris from the blast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Its narrow, labyrinthine streets are lined with stone buildings that blend Swahili, Arabic, Persian, Indian and European building styles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

We crossed dark side streets, crested bridges, wheeled round invisible corners.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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