pavement
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Resident Elz Ravenscroft asked Vernon if he would cut back the overgrown bushes on the pavement which her daughter used to walk to and from school.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Perched on a pavement terrace with a colleague, a 38-year-old art teacher who gave her name as Alma said she had "never seen anything like it".
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
All Roadsters have a fan-suction system that can make the car hug the pavement at high speeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Former California state Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg has been pounding the pavement, trying to encourage voters to support Proposition 37 on ballots statewide.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
I slip out the door, then run over the pavement to my bike.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Potential applications include concrete pavements, highway parapet walls, and sewer pipelines.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
On a street in Ivory Coast's economic capital, Abidjan, municipal officers were in pursuit of informal vendors who had set up their stalls on the pavements and, in some cases, the roads.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
You note that California’s new tire regulations are “perilous” because they may increase stopping distances on wet pavements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Paris was one of the first cities to adopt e-scooters, but growing concern about dangerous driving and obstructing pavements led to for-hire e-scooters being outlawed.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless, air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements scorched one’s feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was a horror.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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