in the street
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"I don't want to see a political system in which you can't have conversations with people at the supermarket, in the street, at street meetings, public forums – that's an important part of our democracy."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But now she says she simply lets it out: "If someone catcalls me in the street, I rage. I don't care."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
She said she had seen him frequently on the university grounds in front of her building and had an alarming encounter when he yelled at her in the street the prior week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
If you say Poirot in the street, more people will perhaps know his name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
It would stop and peer into the upstairs window of each house in the street.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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