thoroughfare
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Jude Pelaez was among the dancers who showed up Monday on Paseo de la Reforma, a major thoroughfare in Mexico's capital, for a BTS promotional event to get fans ready for the concerts.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Iran agreed to reopen the vital thoroughfare during the two-week truce, but said it would maintain "dominion" over it.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
For activist Golshan Fathi, there was little sign of Nowruz on Gandhi Street, a commercial thoroughfare in north Tehran.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The other spectators watched the show on a dozen screens installed further down the road, all the way to the main thoroughfare blocks away.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
When it came and Brother Hinton was taken to Harlem Hospital, we Muslims followed, in loose formations, for about fifteen blocks along Lenox Avenue, probably the busiest thoroughfare in Harlem.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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