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as in taxi
an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled called a cab to get back to the hotel

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verb

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Recent Examples of cab
Noun
David is a bundle of nervous energy, terrified that Benji will be late for the flight, calling him repeatedly from his cab. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2024 He was caught when a good Samaritan cab driver alerted authorities, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said. Louis Casiano, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2024
Verb
Some fans walked away from the stadium to grab an Uber or cab back to their hotels. Bryan West, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024 Mansukhani, a designer in New York and a daughter of immigrants, said her uncle, Umesh Reghuram, wired money to cab drivers, vegetable peddlers and maids. Dr. Divya Chhabra, ABC News, 10 May 2021 See all Example Sentences for cab 
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Noun
  • Industries including healthcare, education and service providers are more prone to violence than others, and taxi drivers are more than 20 times more likely to be murdered on the job than other workers, the group said.
    Adam Geller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Other footage shows that person walking at West 86th Street and Columbus Avenue before entering a taxi cab which drove him about five miles north to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Washington Heights, right next to the George Washington Bridge, police said.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Currently, students can be bused across the city to get certain programming — but there are routes with no more than three students on a bus.
    Asher Price, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Students who were being bused to the building Thuesday were rerouted to Wilder Elementary School, where parents had options for pick-up.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The excavator motored toward a growing pile—the wall-to-be, which followed a plan laid out in software—and an algorithm predicted how the new stone would settle onto the others.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Vonk’s lawsuit accused the Neptune Society of Northern California of negligence, for the Naiad allegedly motoring at an unsafe speed and failing to keep clear of the breakwater, while no proper lookout was maintained.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • These household purveyors of horsepower, ride height, and above all—pun intended—entertainment, are icons of aftermarket modification.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Sony’s plan to build an entire franchise out of standalone films about Peter Parker’s nemeses always read as a transparent attempt at riding Marvel Studios’ coattails post-Spider-Man: Homecoming.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024

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“Cab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cab. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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