as in automobile
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
every teenager's dream of getting a driver's license and a first car
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Recent Examples of car
Plus, relying upon the largesse of car companies is usually a fool's errand, as F1 history shows over and over again.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
Officials tied at least four deadly car crashes to the snowstorm this week, including a major pile-up in North Carolina and several collisions in Nebraska and Tennessee.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
My husband, however, grew up in a very different reality—an affluent town where many of his friends were driving cars that cost as much as our house.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 21 Feb. 2025
Officers in one of the cars opened up the moonroof and shot it with an electromagnetic gun, disabling it.
—Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 9 Feb. 2025
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Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
Officials tied at least four deadly car crashes to the snowstorm this week, including a major pile-up in North Carolina and several collisions in Nebraska and Tennessee.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
My husband, however, grew up in a very different reality—an affluent town where many of his friends were driving cars that cost as much as our house.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 21 Feb. 2025
Officers in one of the cars opened up the moonroof and shot it with an electromagnetic gun, disabling it.
—Alex Isenstadt, Axios, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for car
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Meanwhile, investors are mulling over Trump’s most recent tariff suggestions, which include implementing a 25% duty on automobiles, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.—
Brian Evans,Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2025
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Now that includes automobiles, too, with the collector market having grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry—live and online auctions brought in $3.56 billion in the U.S. alone last year, according to Hagerty.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2025
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Fortunately by that point, the bus driver had already ushered all 15 youngsters on board to safety.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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Black people had to use separate water fountains and sit in different sections of the bus.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Pettersen admitted that the trip was challenging—think about the sheer amount of newborn gear that babies need with bottles, sound machines, travel cribs, and more.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
26 Feb. 2025
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To fund his war machine, Putin has been throwing the living room furniture into the furnace, cannibalizing productive sectors and relying on unsustainable, record deficit spending.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian,
TIME,
26 Feb. 2025
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Surviving the incident were Enrique Diaz, who owns an auto shop in East New York and Sewchand Maniram, of South Richmond Hill.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
1 Mar. 2025
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The Fed's elevated rate has contributed to higher borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS,
arkansasonline.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Car.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/car. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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