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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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Riot police used water cannons and tear gas almost daily to disperse and beat scores of protesters, some of whom threw fireworks at police officers and built barricades on the capital’s central boulevard.
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Sophiko Megrelidze, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Protesters responded by launching fireworks at officers and erecting barricades along the city's central boulevard.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
In July, an annoyed mob roamed Barcelona’s boulevards dousing visitors with squirt guns.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024
The main boulevards there and in Temple City are lined with strip malls featuring Asian supermarkets and Chinese regional cuisines.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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Sophiko Megrelidze, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Protesters responded by launching fireworks at officers and erecting barricades along the city's central boulevard.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
In July, an annoyed mob roamed Barcelona’s boulevards dousing visitors with squirt guns.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024
The main boulevards there and in Temple City are lined with strip malls featuring Asian supermarkets and Chinese regional cuisines.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
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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