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pavement

noun as in blacktop

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The bold design covers most of the pavement, and swirls onto the road in a sweeping curve, while orange planters of varying sizes have been placed on top.

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"We are waiting, sitting by the crossing. My son and I slept here last night, on the pavement, in the cold, waiting to go back home," he told a BBC freelancer.

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Today, it lies on its side on cracked pavement, like an abandoned time capsule or a crashed U.F.O.

He was found by police officers unconscious on the pavement with a severe head injury and in cardiac arrest.

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Defense attorneys said Ramos-Brito sustained multiple contusions on his face, neck and back and had cuts and scrapes on his body from being dragged across the pavement later.

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