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noun (1)

ˈbīk

Definition of bike

as in bicycle

a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars likes to ride her mountain bike on weekends

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chiefly Scottish

as in crowd

a great number of persons or creatures massed together the boisterous bike that annually descends upon Edinburgh for the Fringe

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Recent Examples of bike

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The weight of the lamp outbalanced the bike and collapsed with the most almighty thud (wheels still spinning). — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Klein told reporters after the event that some parents will give their children an e-bike and throw it away a year later when the battery stops working, not knowing the battery still has enough potential for significant damage. — Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 28 Oct. 2026 Marin County is in the planning stages of a multimillion-dollar project to raise and widen portions of the bike path, with the goal of reducing future flooding and protecting the route against rising sea levels. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 The Mamdani administration is pushing ahead with a plan to trade a car lane for a bike lane on a section of Third Ave. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 28 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bike

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bike

Noun

Granado, 53, rode his bicycle to Lazo’s home at Southwest 148th Avenue in the Victoria Parc neighborhood late Thursday morning.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026
Electric bicycles, in contrast, come with pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts, according to the California Highway Patrol.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of bicycle

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Tim Buchanan, a legendary Aledo football head coach and Republican, also addressed Hinojosa’s roughly 250-person crowd Tuesday night.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
The fall shift to standard time already brings dozens more cars to the drive-in through December, and making the change permanent could help accommodate bigger crowds year-round.

— Lila Hempel-Edgers, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of crowd

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Salem is a vibrant, thriving, bustling city, attracting throngs of tourists in the autumn.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Guests of the hotel have a special opportunity to visit the villa privately, away from the throngs of tourists that visit from near and far.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of throng

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There are a swarm of startups looking to use the technology to transform entertainment, but Anthropic, unlike SpaceX and OpenAI, has never spent resources on video or image models.

— Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026
In the early eighteenth century, the village of Gais started attracting swarms of visitors, many from abroad, who wanted to sample Gaisschottenkur, a treatment featuring goat’s whey.

— D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of swarm

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The pastor has either abandoned his aging flock or has been murdered, possibly by his wife, Hermana Romie (Evelina Fernández).

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
November 3 will undoubtedly mark a turning point not just for this new flock of Democrats hoping to descend on Washington in January, but also for a White House that has sought to alter the fabric of the country and its relationship with the world.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of flock

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Speaking to hordes of mostly young fans at his Masterclass and later at a press conference and multiple one-on-one interviews, the indefatigable filmmaker reflected on the current state of affairs in the world.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 24 Oct. 2026
In July, a horde of OpenAI agents broke out of their sandboxes and worked together to launch a cyberattack on the AI company Hugging Face.

— Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of horde

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Kyiv has accused Russian forces of mining nearby roads and using the remaining residents as human shields to prevent Ukraine’s army from conducting offensive operations in the town.

— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026
Will a YouTube viewer spend more than half an hour trying to figure out if Ukraine’s attacks on Russian data centers have decimated an army of propaganda bots?

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of army

Noun

Buying the car in 2003, the current steward followed in their footsteps, entering the D-Type in a multitude of key driving events, many with his son as co-driver.

— Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2026
More than 90 pages of Anthropic's IPO prospectus, revealed Monday, center on the AI lab's multitude of corporate risk factors, many of which go beyond the kinds of boilerplate scenarios typically found in corporate filings.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026

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