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as in instrumentality
something used to achieve an end
used organized protests as a vehicle for change
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as in transportation
something used to carry goods or passengers
bought a larger vehicle after they had a third baby
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Recent Examples of vehicle
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tesla — The electric vehicle maker’s stock jumped more than 4% after Business Insider reported that Tesla’s robotaxi service will debut in San Francisco as soon as this weekend.
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Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 July 2025
Motorcyclists should know their gross vehicle weight rating and remember, luggage counts as weight.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Police added that the vehicle was last captured on a traffic camera at around 8 p.m. local time in Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 July 2025
Picture Florida in 2045: with 26 million residents, millions of electric vehicles, and data centers powering the digital economy.
—Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
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Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 July 2025
Motorcyclists should know their gross vehicle weight rating and remember, luggage counts as weight.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Police added that the vehicle was last captured on a traffic camera at around 8 p.m. local time in Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 July 2025
Picture Florida in 2045: with 26 million residents, millions of electric vehicles, and data centers powering the digital economy.
—Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vehicle
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They are left wielding the tools of instrumentality: in-groups and cliques, buying effort through more money, coercive employment agreements and suits against whistleblowers.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Holding the weight of cotton’s influence on the world, and thus the instrumentality of Black labor, is painful, yet necessary work.—
Cierra Black,
Essence,
9 July 2025
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In a scolding rejection of the prosecution after an eight-week trial, the eight men and four women New York jury earlier this month only found 55-year-old Combs guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
31 July 2025
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The Changing Landscape of Mobility Technology is also rapidly transforming the concept of personal transportation.—
Selika Josiah Talbott,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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But the 2017 event was only recently identified through re-analysis using satellite instruments, including NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16).—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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Even the original one-month extension would have been too little time to arrange for, and fine-tune, other instruments to match the previous data for scientific continuity, Cortinas said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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Other issues — visa denials, exorbitant costs, America’s allergy to public transport — could be a stain on the tournament, and are just as important to document.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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According to Wisk, its Generation 6 aircraft is the world's first autonomous, all-electric, four-seat air taxi designed for daily passenger transport.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Record company executives, agents, producers and bookers dominate the panel discussions.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
23 July 2025
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Flood insurance is available through your company, agent, or the National Flood Insurance Program.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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Cars, car parts and agricultural and construction machinery were among the top goods Americans bought from there.—
Kit Maher,
CNN Money,
23 July 2025
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Now the nominations machinery is restarting, and Trump's most controversial judicial nominee is only one step away from the federal bench.—
July 21,
NPR,
21 July 2025
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Replace people with mechanisms to drive labor costs down and profits up.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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The discovery of the illness put pressure on the artificial division between psychiatry and neurology—the only two fields of medicine that focus on the same organ.—
Rachel Aviv,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Placental mammals have a placenta, an organ that develops during gestation and bridges mother and fetus.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
19 July 2025
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“Vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vehicle. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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