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noun

ˈbəs

Definition of bus

as in car

a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels this old bus is still running—but barely

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Recent Examples of bus

Noun

There were earlier versions of this story that were openly mocking of Kip, versions that threw Leo under the bus for being too sly; versions that were too overtly political; versions with ghosts that didn’t need to be there, and so on. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 His thoughts postgame weren’t on boarding a bus for the 2-hour, 15-minute ride back to southeast Kansas. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026

Verb

Plenty of tour companies will bus you up. — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026 People bus in from surrounding neighborhoods and towns. — Alexis Marshall, NPR, 3 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bus

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Noun

That sent the first two cars of the impacted train plummeting down a 13-foot slope.

— JOSEPH WILSON, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
Heavy Is the Crown resembles a mainstream rap sampler of sorts, and its default settings are the kickback and the car stereo.

— Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of car

Noun

Along with charred automobile parts, construction debris and battery casing fragments found on the site as deep as 16 feet underground, MPCA testing done in the early 2010s identified lead and carcinogenic chemical hotspots.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
The modern assembly line American industrialist Ransom Olds introduced an early automotive assembly-line production system around 1901, while Henry Ford later popularized moving assembly lines in automobile manufacturing.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of automobile

Verb

On a drizzly morning in March 2025, a bright blue dive boat motored through Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia toward the Tufts Cove generating station.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Varma holed out in the outfield in Ahmed’s final over, but Varma motored to his 21-ball half-century by clubbing 15 runs of the fast bowler’s final four balls.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of motor

Verb

Baltzor and her husband Keith, had just finished riding a bunch of about 150 hundred head of their cattle down Highway 205 on horseback from another pasture.

— Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
JenChan’s floor manager, Maxx Reginello, couldn’t work for a few weeks last year after he was hit while riding his bike home after a double shift on Easter.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of ride

Noun

Those stoppers bite on 22-inch aluminum-alloy wheels dressed with, at least in our car’s case, Pirelli Trofeo RS rubber.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2026
View gallery - 7 images This tiny house takes the look of a traditional mountain lodge and puts it on wheels.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of wheels

Verb

Aranda was in the midst of his seventh season in charge of the Bears after taking over the head coaching gig in Waco, Texas, ahead of the 2020 season.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
The Musketeers, founded in 2022, were coached by former NFL linebacker coach Jack Del Rio for the past two seasons, but his contract has expired.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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