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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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Some of the city's oldest multifamily structures line the boulevard in one of its densest neighborhoods.
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Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
The event, started by journalist and walking aficionado Michael Schneider, has hundreds of Angelenos trekking the length of an iconic boulevard every November on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Traffic jams have returned to Hadi Nasrallah Avenue in Lebanon’s capital, the southern suburbs’ main boulevard named after the son of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
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.
—Sophiko Megrelidze, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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Tara Prindiville, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
The event, started by journalist and walking aficionado Michael Schneider, has hundreds of Angelenos trekking the length of an iconic boulevard every November on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Traffic jams have returned to Hadi Nasrallah Avenue in Lebanon’s capital, the southern suburbs’ main boulevard named after the son of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
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.
—Sophiko Megrelidze, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 23 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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