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a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
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Recent Examples of automobile
Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
The engine cover demo suggests Atlas may be gearing up for work in automobile factories.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
In trials this year working at BMW’s South Carolina factory, Figure 02 successfully completed various tasks involved in automobile assembly, such as inserting sheet metal parts into assembly fixtures.
—Tharin Pillay, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
In the lead up to the building’s completion, that was the prize that its owner, automobile entrepreneur Walter P. Chrysler, was chasing.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
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On the way to becoming Lydia’s story, the details of Annie’s narrative may have blended with those of other automobile deaths involving young women in the area.
—Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
The engine cover demo suggests Atlas may be gearing up for work in automobile factories.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
In trials this year working at BMW’s South Carolina factory, Figure 02 successfully completed various tasks involved in automobile assembly, such as inserting sheet metal parts into assembly fixtures.
—Tharin Pillay, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
In the lead up to the building’s completion, that was the prize that its owner, automobile entrepreneur Walter P. Chrysler, was chasing.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for automobile
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The car has 168,000 miles on it, and everything mechanical is original.David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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There was some disagreement over how forcefully the victim contacted Morrow’s car during the incident.Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Micaela Hanning, Crean Lutheran: The transfer from Calvary Chapel is an explosive point guard who can strike from the perimeter and drive to the basket.Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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In 2021, Gonzalez-Nunez allegedly drove a car in a sideshow while his girlfriend hung out of the window with an miniature AK-47.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The bus was traveling from Garhwal in the Himalayas and was headed to the town of Ramnagar, with at least 42 passengers on board, local police officer Devendra Pincha said by phone.Reuters, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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The death follows an Oct. 3 traffic fatality near the same intersection where a man died after he was struck by a bus in the area of Mission Boulevard and Warm Springs Boulevard.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Not quite a Saturday morning canyon carver, instead this Benz serves perfectly as the Sunday brunch cruiser, a true time capsule from a bygone era of motoring that Mercedes, and almost every automaker, can still learn from today.Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Although Kadyrov has denied sending Chechen troops to Ukraine, there have been numerous sightings of heavily armed Chechen battalions motoring through the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.Nicholas Waller, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2015
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Over the past five weeks, rookie Devaughn Vele’s also been a conversion machine.Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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The decrease is attributed to a reduction in the number of mining machines in operation.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Moreover, the lack of interconnection generates severe friction in workflows; tasks that should take a few seconds can take several minutes or even hours as teams jump from tool to tool to execute a simple task.Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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The first two episodes of Monsters paint a portrait of the brothers that matches the first impressions most people got of them from the media: They are entitled, rich, preppy, swole dudes tooling around Los Angeles in limousines.Jen Chaney, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Automobile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/automobile. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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