as in car
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
with the coming of the horseless carriage, distances between places were greatly reduced and the national landscape was transformed
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Within a decade, however, the horseless carriage had greatly reduced demand for horse clippers.
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Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 18 May 2022
Ford's 'horseless carriage' had two speeds — 10 and 20 miles per hour selected by twin drive belts.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2021
The horseless carriage made its debut in Washington in 1897.
—Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
Electricity has actually been competing with gasoline—and steam—to power automobiles since the very dawn of the horseless carriage.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 May 2020
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Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 18 May 2022
Ford's 'horseless carriage' had two speeds — 10 and 20 miles per hour selected by twin drive belts.
—Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2021
The horseless carriage made its debut in Washington in 1897.
—Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2021
Electricity has actually been competing with gasoline—and steam—to power automobiles since the very dawn of the horseless carriage.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 27 May 2020
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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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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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Almora district officials reported to the scene and worked to rescue passengers from the overturned bus.Charna Flam, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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The engine cover demo suggests Atlas may be gearing up for work in automobile factories.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
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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
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That could lead to delays at voting centers as voters take longer to cast their ballots, slow down tabulation and potentially create paper jams in counting machines because the ballot is two pages, front and back.Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Lots of people know how the beginning of the AI revolution led to replacing the idea of a CPU with a GPU: a more sophisticated and specialized type of logical processor that lent itself to machine learning and related work.John Werner, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Horseless carriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horseless%20carriage. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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