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Recent Examples of cruise control from the Web
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The dispatcher then asked if Cooper could set his cruise control and then manually use it to slow his speed.
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Buy Photo Jack Herman could spend his senior season on cruise control.
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Between September and October 2009, Ford initiated a recall of 15 million vehicles with overheating switches in cruise control systems, the second-largest auto recall in history.
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Samford's Stephen Jones started the game for the Bulldogs and was on cruise control until the fifth inning.
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And to get peak fuel economy requires driving it, almost, as an electric vehicle: go easy on the gas, do short shifts, anticipate the need for power and set the cruise control at the speed limit (more or less) on open road.
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Drivers can also push the cruise control stalk, or lightly press the brake pedal to disengage.
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The steering wheel had controls for the audio system, cruise control and hands-free phone.
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The Trump Administration has on cruise control the same ISIS-centric policies of the Obama Administration.
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First Known Use of cruise control
1960
CRUISE CONTROL Defined for English Language Learners
cruise control
Definition of cruise control for English Language Learners
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: a device in a vehicle that a driver turns on to make the vehicle continue at whatever speed the driver has chosen
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: a relaxed pace that does not require a lot of effort
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