as in automobile
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
every teenager's dream of getting a driver's license and a first car
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Recent Examples of car
But the teeming streets — packed with cars, bikes and a growing number of other vehicles — became increasingly hostile to pedestrians in 2024, city statistics show.
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Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
This 1,781-acre preserve ($10 per car to enter) includes eight miles of broad, smooth paths for walking among the flowers.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
While riding one might not be the flashiest way to get around, reducing our reliance on gas-guzzling cars is cool and important.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
People leaned on their car horns, expressing their joy at the end of a regime that relied on brutality and terror as a means of governing Syria for more than half a century and waged a civil war that forced millions of people to become refugees.
—John Ketchum, NPR, 29 Dec. 2024
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Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
This 1,781-acre preserve ($10 per car to enter) includes eight miles of broad, smooth paths for walking among the flowers.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
While riding one might not be the flashiest way to get around, reducing our reliance on gas-guzzling cars is cool and important.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2024
People leaned on their car horns, expressing their joy at the end of a regime that relied on brutality and terror as a means of governing Syria for more than half a century and waged a civil war that forced millions of people to become refugees.
—John Ketchum, NPR, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for car
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Chevrolet’s famed Tri-Five automobiles—built in 1955, 1956, and 1957—were models that established themselves as automotive heartthrobs in their time, and even more so over the course of ensuing decades.Robert Ross, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2024
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The discovery of electrons, aka electricity, was the major driving force of the second industrial revolution, leading to more efficient mass-production techniques in the form of assembly-line production and the rise of the steel, automobile, and telecommunications industries.Sarwant Singh, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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And Davey says the riders complain about how slowly the buses move.Joel Rose, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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Her bus back to São Paulo, a seven-hour journey, wasn’t scheduled to leave for several hours.María Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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The company has also built out its own pathogen lab, which includes PCR machines to test for infections in their bulk milk tanks (daily) and their cows (once a week).Amy Feldman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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That was true for both participants who used a CPAP machine and those who do not.Juliana Kim, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
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Mate Rimac is going to revolutionize the auto industry.Morgan Korn, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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In the year 2000, Visteon was launched from the electrical division of Ford, and part of the visioning exercise of this burgeoning, multibillion dollar corporation was to predict what radical changes would impact the auto industry in the year 2025.Steve Tengler, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Car.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/car. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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