minivan

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Recent Examples of minivan The company imports its Chrysler Pacifica minivans from Canada and compact Dodge Hornet and Fiat 500 from Italy. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025 Her body was found after an employee noticed a smell coming from the minivan, the lawsuit claims. Kc Baker, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025 Chrysler minivans at an assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario, on Jan. 31.Geoff Robins / AFP - Getty Images Many drivers are already stressed about potential car purchases. J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2025 An investigation is underway in New Jersey after an infant was found dead inside a minivan earlier this week, officials said. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for minivan
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Noun
  • His father and uncle — the only two remaining rail car workers in the neighborhood — still live there.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Even very young infants will enjoy watching the overhead toys move around as the car drives, which is great for their eyesight and development.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Air strikes also occurred Saturday in Aleppo, where an AFP photographer saw charred cars, including a minibus.
    AFP, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The one-year extension amounted to a reprieve in this spring's minibus and expires March 25.
    Victoria Knight, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Tesla Cybertruck Is The Auto Industry’s Biggest Flop In Decades The list of famous auto industry flops is long and storied, topped by stinkers like Ford’s Edsel and exploding Pinto and General Motors’s unsightly Pontiac Aztek crossover SUV.
    Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Griffith’s Buick hit a Chevrolet Traverse, critically injuring all four people in that SUV, who are from the town of Brock, according to the statement.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lawyers for the Venezuelans said many have been loaded on to buses, presumably headed for the airport, without having had a realistic opportunity to contest their removal under the Alien Enemies Act.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • True, the Port Authority managed to squeeze a nearly $2 billion loan out of Joe Biden’s federal government to help with the $10 billion (and rising) cost of rebuilding its bus terminal.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Similar in packaging to an IGH but different in execution, continuously variable hubs function like the transmission in a midrange automobile.
    Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Canada also announced 25% tariffs on certain automobiles exported from the U.S. that aren’t protected by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
    JJ Kinahan, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • McCaffrey is the father to superstar San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey, Washington Commanders wide receiver Luke McCaffrey, Miami Dolphins assistant coach Max McCaffrey and former college quarterback Dylan McCaffrey.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Penn State athletic department also credits former Penn State club ice hockey coach Joe Battista, a former school administrator who played a pivotal in securing the original donation from the Pegulas and oversaw the early development of the men’s and women’s D-I programs.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 2023 and 2024, the automaker sold only about 2,000 of the electric vans, according to its sales reports.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Newsom appeals ‘irrational and malicious’ decision to cut USDA food assistance program What else is going on A driver crashed a van into crowd of shoppers in L.A.’s Santee Alley, injuring nine, including three children Southern California is expected to get possible record-breaking heat this week.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By the time the wagon arrived at the Western District station, its sixth stop, Gray was unconscious.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In a squad, a soldier rides one horse in the lead, six horses pull the caisson wagon, and a riderless horse follows.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025

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