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Recent Examples of bridle pathShe was discovered on the bridle path by a motorist who got her to Illinois Central Hospital, where she was found to be uninjured.—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023 The scenic nine-mile Ojai Valley Trail offers a paved side for bicyclists, joggers, and walkers, with a dirt bridle path for horseback riding running alongside it.—Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023 While the main trail is paved from point to point, there’s an eight-mile unpaved alternate trail that starts just south of the Skokie Lagoons following an old dirt bridle path.—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2022 Known as the Fens Pond Bridge, the old bridle path once marked the edge of Boston, a city Frederick Law Olmsted, more than a century in the grave, continues to shape.—Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper later reported that Byron was flying in a helicopter when he got caught in a downdraft, forcing him to land on a bridle path where Ms. Mimieux was horseback riding.—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022 Its situation at the intersection of San Pedro and Basse was considered ideal for its proximity to Olmos Park, Fort Sam Houston and Brackenridge Park, to which it was supposed to be connected by bridle paths.—Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 22 June 2019 Down bridle paths, ancient roads, walkways and thruways.—Peter Rock, New York Times, 15 May 2018
Trump arrived by Marine One helicopter as more than 100 protesters at the Trump National Golf Club crowded along the edge of the parking lot along the street.
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John Bacon,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
Stately homes line streets, and small businesses dot the downtown.
But there’s another route this could go down, a silent divorce.
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Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
5 June 2025
Every day at the start of practice, the wide receivers line up and run half-speed routes to get loose, while the quarterbacks throw high-arcing passes downfield.
But that Miami location near the busy LeJeune Road thoroughfare that leads from Miami International Airport five miles away also once made this Sears a popular destination with tourists.
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Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2025
Lamia is laser-focused on fulfilling her cake-baking duty, but Bibi has made this trip with another purpose, one that divides the two and sets Lamia on a quest through the city’s thoroughfares and backstreets and bustling souk, with its hawkers and their wares.
On the morning of Thursday, 12 Dec. 1985, shortly after takeoff from Canada's Gander International Airport en route to Fort Campbell, the McDonnell Douglas DC-8 serving the flight stalled, crashed, and burned about half a mile from the runway, killing all 248 passengers and 8 crew members on board.
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Helen H. Richardson,
Denver Post,
26 May 2025
Two more people on the ground also died in the crash that impacted an open field about 4,600 feet northwest of the departure end of the runway.
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