Recent Examples on the WebOn Thursday afternoon, the team piled into a minibus to make the two-hour trip to Poughkeepsie for the game.—Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024 Days later, a gang opened fire on a crowded minibus after the driver refused to comply with orders at a checkpoint known as a place where criminals seek to extort civilians.—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 Participants choosing the greener options are once more relegated to the slushy sidewalks or forced into minibuses with no priority over private cars.—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024 Local minibuses decked out in vibrant colors and crammed with passengers careened down jagged roads.—Rosalind Cummings-Yeates, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 On a rainy September night, the truck rumbled onto the infield of the Rockford Speedway in Illinois, stopping with its business end about 10 feet from a junk minibus.—John Keilman, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023 The contestants stay at a nearby hotel during the weekends and travel to the tent via minibus during competition days before returning home during the week, Quinn told Cosmopolitan.—Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023 But, after the delivery, on the way back to Al-Rastan, the cousin took a minibus, and the vehicle was ambushed by regime troops.—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023 The Senate will meet on Monday to resume consideration of a military appropriations bill, which was pitched as part of a minibus proposal that would have included two other appropriations bills.—Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2023
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