Arab street
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Within hours, the discourse on the Arab street changed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
"But the Arab street has not forgotten Iraq," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
“We kept shouting, ‘We want water, just water, we don’t have water,’” Mohammad, 29, an ethnic Arab street vendor, said in a phone interview with The New York Times from Ahvaz, Khuzestan’s provincial capital.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
Ever since he came into the White House, it has been a major talking point in the Arab street, as you might say.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2018
American diplomats, he insists, cannot fool themselves into engaging with the Arab street by sending tweets from behind fortified walls.
From Newsweek ● Nov. 5, 2012
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