as in car
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
browsed online for used automobiles for sale
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Recent Examples of automobile
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
With the popularity of the automobile growing, in 1913 a group of entrepreneurs established the Lincoln Highway Association to develop a highway from New York to California.
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Salena Zito,
Washington Post,
1 July 2026
The trio enjoyed in-jokes, road trips in fast cars (Picabia was obsessed with automobiles), and artistic experiments.
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Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
29 June 2026
Health insurance premiums, deductibles, childcare, university tuition, retirement savings, and automobile expenses consume a large portion of household income.
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Steven Delco,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2026
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Noun
Slate Auto is an American automobile company backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Charles Singh,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
With the popularity of the automobile growing, in 1913 a group of entrepreneurs established the Lincoln Highway Association to develop a highway from New York to California.
—
Salena Zito,
Washington Post,
1 July 2026
The trio enjoyed in-jokes, road trips in fast cars (Picabia was obsessed with automobiles), and artistic experiments.
—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
29 June 2026
Health insurance premiums, deductibles, childcare, university tuition, retirement savings, and automobile expenses consume a large portion of household income.
—
Steven Delco,
Hartford Courant,
29 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for automobile
Noun
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Other changes cover self-driving car citations, school cellphone bans, all-gender restrooms and standardized food date labels.
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Its biggest change is the introduction of the BMW i3, a fully electric version of the car.
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The abnormal heat has been driven by the onset of El Niño, a natural climate pattern characterized by unusually warm waters along the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Congestion is difficult to predict, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic, when driving behavior shifted and peak traffic hours spread out instead of sticking to the more uniform 9-to-5 workday.
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Gonzalez said a summary of the incident did not indicate that any occupants, other than the driver, were on the bus at the time of the crash.
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The company has also added stations to inspect class six and eight commercial trucks and buses along with new cameras for interior inspections for all vehicles.
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Mora picked the ball up on halfway and just kept on motoring forward, moving towards two runners on the right, eventually nudging the ball through for Jorge Sanchez, who bundled the ball across for Quinones to finish.
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In the fifth, Harper lined a ball into the gap in left-center field and motored around to third base for a two-run triple.
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In the suburbs and across major cities, the buzzing machines are everywhere.
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Maybe dunking your head in a cotton candy machine, but it's been done.
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Clear-eyed CEOs understand that tooling for the hardest parts, registering every agent as an enterprise asset, and finding reusable patterns across those agents still takes deliberate human work.
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Perry was also spotted behind the wheel of an electric vehicle and tooled around town with Trudeau riding in the passenger seat.
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“Automobile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/automobile. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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