Thesaurus results for ALLEYS

alleys

noun

plural of alley

as in streets

a narrow passage between buildings One can spend days exploring all the alleys and backstreets of the old city.

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Recent Examples of alleys Last month, when video of a runaway piglet tearing down Hayworth Avenue and through the alleys near Canter’s Deli hit social media, the internet went nuts. — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 Later, his father and uncle would initiate him into the masculine play worlds of Albany’s bars, poolrooms, and bowling alleys. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Residents are asked to bring their debris from alleys to the street for pickup. — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Malls, once anchored by department stores, are reinventing themselves as experience hubs—think escape rooms, arcades and bowling alleys, with small commerce areas tucked in alongside. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026 At the foot of the gulf, the village of Grimaud is crowned with remnants of a medieval castle, and its winding alleys are adorned with bright bougainvilleas. — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2026 Consider, for instance, a crossroads of two busy streets, with a few alleys and parking lots adding to the list of potential dangers. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026 And speaking of driver assist, there’s a feature called Memory Reversing Assist that remembers the vehicle’s path and can automatically guide it backward out of narrow alleys or parking spots. — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 20 Aug. 2026 There, sprinklers sprayed water across the track ensuring that our route, a coned course with tight, tricky curves and acceleration alleys, would challenge me at every turn. — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The Basij run a nationwide network of volunteers who maintain a presence in the streets, government offices and cultural centers, seeking to ensure loyalty and ideological purity for Iran’s theocracy.

— Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
This location is more residential, with quieter streets and approachable local trattorias, but offers several architecturally significant palaces and one of the city's oldest churches, the 11th-century San Zan Degola.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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Florida officials banned license plate readers on state highways as the backlash to Flack Safety and other surveillance cameras continues to gain steam.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
On Monday, Florida's state transportation office revoked local law enforcement's ability to put license plate readers on state highways.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026

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