Thesaurus results for AUTOS

autos

noun

plural of auto

as in cars

a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels the auto gave people a level of mobility that they had never known before

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Recent Examples of autos For every car owner, another 50 or 60 people loved to read about autos—or so The Travel Magazine figured—if not necessarily hear endlessly about their neighbor’s new wheels. —

Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026 The bank, Khanna said, would provide capital to businesses trying to build or produce things critical to the national interest, whether that’s steel, autos or energy. —

Garrett Downs, CNBC, 28 May 2026 Televisions and autos are still uncommon. —

Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Defense industry workers who made up the bulk of Azure Vista’s new population faced a 6-mile-minimum commute to work, and private autos were not the norm. —

Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026 This encompasses all parallels and insert parallels /75 or lower, autos /100 or lower, and case hit level inserts or rarer. —

Corey Merriman, New York Times, 13 May 2026 The announcement appeared to be a deadline extension after the president said last Friday that EU autos would face a higher 25% tariff starting this week. —

ABC News, 7 May 2026 On Sunday, April 26, enthusiasts can get up-close looks at more than 2,000 fantastic flying machines and vintage autos when this event takes over the Half Moon Bay Airport. —

Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026 In autos, Tesla is now a no-growth engine. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for autos

Noun

Both drivers climbed from their cars and walked to an ambulance for a trip to the track’s infield care center.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 June 2026
Su noted that solid-state batteries will play a central role in enabling the next generation of flying cars by delivering both the energy density required for longer flight ranges and the safety standards needed for commercial operations.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026