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pavement

[peyv-muhnt] / ˈpeɪv mənt /
NOUN
blacktop
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Yet even then, our independence was strictly limited by where the safe pavement ended.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Police effectively asked Google to look through a vast archive of human movement and identify which lives intersected with a particular patch of pavement at a particular moment in time.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

At 00:06, a member of the public came on to Newchurch Road and saw Harden lying on the pavement and Matabiswana's friend kneeling next to him with his head in her hands.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

We witness this in the sizzling images of Tory Burch shoes pounding the hot Los Angeles pavement and in the sportswear designs that Otis students worked on for months, the results literally glowing and electric.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

I walk out into the empty space of pavement.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron




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