an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled
couldn't hail a taxi so I had to run in the rain to make my appointment
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Recent Examples of taxi
Noun
From Brussels take a local train via Liege or a taxi.—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 It’s heard in markets or throbbing from taxi radios and speakers in rickety roadside bars.—Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
Both jets taxi to the end of the runway in the soft light.—J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024 In the spring of 2023, between morning workouts and evening performances in a West End adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, taxied by motorcycle to Crossman’s London studio, where the staff took his measurements and used three-dimensional scans to create a lifelike mold of his body.—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for taxi
But also to the hotel workers, florists, restaurants, construction crews, cab drivers, stylists, seamstresses, rental companies, cleaners — the number of people required to mount, oversee and break down these enormous events is incalculable.
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Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Some London neuroscientists saw in cab drivers an opportunity to study how the brain might change in response to the heavy demand for navigational and spatial memory.
The Pete Alonso sweepstakes has been quite the roller coaster ride this winter, especially for the New York Mets.
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Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
They’re all dropped off by their caretakers in a location a short distance away from the stadium and ride a shuttle together once everyone arrives, Shawna Millentree said.
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Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
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