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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
Rabbits leap in patterns across boulevards named after trees.
—Diane Seuss, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
The crowd began moving westward on the boulevard, led by a white van with half a dozen people on top chanting into a microphone and megaphone.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
WisDOT is studying whether the Stadium Freeway between Wisconsin and Lisbon avenues should be replaced with an at-grade boulevard − creating opportunities for new housing and other development.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
The storied boulevard — home to the Academy Awards, TCL Chinese Theatre and the Walk of Fame — is getting a makeover.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Many a would-be dominator of the racetrack or the boulevard face-off has been spanked silly by a Corvette, red or otherwise.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
Mixing a longtime Vietnamese community with a more recent Chinese one, the boulevard is lined with stores, restaurants, massage parlors, nail salons and, block after block, marijuana dispensaries.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
Officers responded around 1 a.m. to a crash at the intersection of Linwood and Van Brunt boulevards, according to Sgt.
—Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2024
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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boulevard
noun
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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