as in cars
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
browsed online for used automobiles for sale
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Recent Examples of automobiles
Douglas P. McCormick,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Built between 1939 and 1942 by cabinetmaker Joe Pellkofer, the intricate model was originally designed much like an elaborate train layout, complete with stores, homes, automobiles, streetlights and hundreds of handcrafted buildings.
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Daily News,
20 June 2026
Potential use cases include ATMs, ticketing kiosks, retail displays, museums, and automobiles, where multiple occupants could listen to different audio streams without headphones or interfering with one another.
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New Atlas,
14 June 2026
The recall includes 255,404 Ford Focus automobiles, model years 2012-2018.
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CBS News,
13 June 2026
That included a 2,200-watt Naim audio system, at $10,525, that ranks among the sweetest-sounding units in automobiles.
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Lawrence Ulrich,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
In a distinctively American architectural feature, many of them were joined to a small dungeon dedicated to the tidy storage of automobiles—and other items.
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Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Amodei added existing regulations for aircraft, automobiles and drugs should serve as models for regulating AI.
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ABC News,
10 June 2026
Electricity replaced whale oil; automobiles supplanted horses; calculators replaced slide rules; and then spreadsheets replaced calculators.
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Jessica Melugin,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
Noun
One man now holds unusual sway across rockets, satellites, automobiles, artificial intelligence, a major communications platform and a web of government contracts — influence concentrated in a way that should make any republic pause.
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Douglas P. McCormick,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Built between 1939 and 1942 by cabinetmaker Joe Pellkofer, the intricate model was originally designed much like an elaborate train layout, complete with stores, homes, automobiles, streetlights and hundreds of handcrafted buildings.
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Daily News,
20 June 2026
Potential use cases include ATMs, ticketing kiosks, retail displays, museums, and automobiles, where multiple occupants could listen to different audio streams without headphones or interfering with one another.
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New Atlas,
14 June 2026
The recall includes 255,404 Ford Focus automobiles, model years 2012-2018.
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CBS News,
13 June 2026
That included a 2,200-watt Naim audio system, at $10,525, that ranks among the sweetest-sounding units in automobiles.
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Lawrence Ulrich,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
In a distinctively American architectural feature, many of them were joined to a small dungeon dedicated to the tidy storage of automobiles—and other items.
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Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
12 June 2026
Amodei added existing regulations for aircraft, automobiles and drugs should serve as models for regulating AI.
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ABC News,
10 June 2026
Electricity replaced whale oil; automobiles supplanted horses; calculators replaced slide rules; and then spreadsheets replaced calculators.
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Jessica Melugin,
Mercury News,
10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for automobiles
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So the crowds on the course, estimated at about 45,000 earlier in the day, which was sunny and seasonably warm, began to disperse, urged to seek shelter and reminded their cars might be the safest place, though there was no re-entry allowed.
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The company explicitly works with high-mileage vehicles, with coverage available for cars at 200,000 miles and beyond.
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What drives so many people to 1) use racial slurs, then 2) go on Love Island USA?
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This sector, focusing on vessels over 30 meters, drives manufacturing, skilled employment, and tourism.
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The event will have medical areas for people who may have a health emergency and cooling buses throughout the parade route for people to get refuge from the heat.
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Unlike regular county buses, these require a match ticket to board.
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Add to this the onslaught of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years and the impact that tools such as large language models (LLMs) have had on the field of marketing, and you’re faced with a veritable juggling act—one that’s possibly never moved so fast in the whole history of the discipline.
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Liccardo asked Atkins whether the SEC has opened an investigation into the trades, and what tools the SEC has to investigate them.
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The European goal machines — who both command a weekly salary north of $600,000 — have started the tournament with a bang.
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Hypersonic missiles have been in development for a while now, but these have tended to be extremely complex machines that are mind-bogglingly expensive to make and slow to deploy.
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“Automobiles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/automobiles. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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