minibus

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Recent Examples of minibus At least two people died and another six were injured after a strike hit a minibus. Solcyré Burga, Time, 9 Aug. 2025 On Saturday, two people died and 16 were wounded when a Russian drone hit a minibus in the suburbs of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, regional Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said. Samya Kullab, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025 Unrest broke out in the African country on Monday after the minibus taxi associations launched a three-day strike against a government move to increase the price of diesel by one-third in an effort to curb costly subsidies and shore up public finances, Reuters reported. Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2025 Get here via small boat from Koman, or as a full-day trip involving a minibus transfer from Shkodër. AFAR Media, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for minibus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minibus
Noun
  • Housing Senate Bill 79 would require communities to approve more housing developments near train and bus stations in many counties across the state.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • There were kiddie pools in the yard and vintage VW buses in the driveway.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • About 18 vehicles, including a number of rare barn find cars, were auctioned from the collection.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Take Tesla, Elon Musk's car company last week delivered its first electric SUV, Model Y, from its showroom in Mumbai.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The sun was getting ready to rise over a rural lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, when a sheriff's deputy shined his flashlight inside Ryan Borgwardt's minivan parked just yards away from the water's edge.
    Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The three of them, dressed in flip-flops and T-shirts, were wandering the streets downtown when a woman in a minivan pulled over to offer them a ride.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Chicago Bears were hoping to get their first win under first-year head coach Ben Johnson in Week 2 against the Detroit Lions.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Message boards can be telling during coach versus media moments.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The measure also includes small changes to Houston's pedicab and jitney industries.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 May 2022
  • Keelboats, jitney cars, horseless carriages, street cars, a railroad train, fire engine, skyway and even the Adm. Joe Fowler Sternwheeler on the Rivers of America all serve as people-movers.
    Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Many leading automobile companies, like Tata Motors and Maruti Suzuki, have already declared price cuts, passing on the benefits of the tax cuts to customers.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But consider our electric lights, our automobiles, our refrigerators and washing machines, our televisions, our computers and smartphones.
    Alan Lightman September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The firm has been trialing its electric vehicles in various cities over the last couple of years, and inaugurated an assembly and testing plant in Hayward, California, to produce 10,000 vans annually that Zoox itself will own and operate.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Luck's Rescue, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, posted CCTV footage of the moment a dog eagerly jumped out of a white van, expecting a walk.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Outside, a Cadillac limousine covered in thousands of coins stops passersby in their tracks.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Uber started off as a way to hire a limousine in San Francisco.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Minibus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minibus. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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