as in car
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
got a license to drive a motor vehicle the minute she turned 16
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The Port of Baltimore is a major hub for the import and export of motor vehicles and farm equipment.
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
The Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the East Coast, is a major hub for the import and export of motor vehicles and farm equipment.
—Matthew Daly, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Car owners looking to check the status of their vehicles can enter their information into the NHTSA recall check or check USA TODAY's recall database for car and motor vehicle recalls.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
At the state level, departments of motor vehicles generally require vehicles to be classified as either an automobile or LSV to receive the registration that permits them to be legally operated on public roads.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2024
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Kate Gibson, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
The Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest on the East Coast, is a major hub for the import and export of motor vehicles and farm equipment.
—Matthew Daly, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Car owners looking to check the status of their vehicles can enter their information into the NHTSA recall check or check USA TODAY's recall database for car and motor vehicle recalls.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2024
At the state level, departments of motor vehicles generally require vehicles to be classified as either an automobile or LSV to receive the registration that permits them to be legally operated on public roads.
—Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2024
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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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“Motor vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motor%20vehicle. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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