in the street
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The throngs of teenagers doing back flips into the Canal Saint-Martin and playing soccer in the street set the mood for the week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Police arrive on scene shortly afterwards and detain the man about five minutes after he first pulled up in the street.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
“These kids could have been in the street or dead or not had the special education or help they needed.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
As if to compensate, on a drizzly Sunday evening in Kyiv, a crowd gathered in the street beneath an apartment building’s third-floor balcony to hear a makeshift string quartet play concertos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
I lingered in the street to count them, though it was cold in the January dawn.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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