cab 1 of 2

as in taxi
an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled called a cab to get back to the hotel

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verb

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Recent Examples of cab
Noun
In 2023, wearing baggy jeans, a fleece vest, and a baseball cap, he was photographed at a gas station filling up his truck and then eating a sandwich in the cab, purportedly a chicken one. Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake Technology has been tangled up in modern life for a long time, but the entwinement of Big Tech, as an industry, with our daily habits—everything from tracking friends to hiring cabs—is new. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
The starting price for the 3500 chassis cabs $49,285 including delivery charge, about $1,700 less than the 2024 model. Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Some fans walked away from the stadium to grab an Uber or cab back to their hotels. Bryan West, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for cab
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cab
Noun
  • In the city that doesn’t sleep, Mamdani, the 34-year-old frontrunner, ate biryani with taxi drivers in Queens’ ever-diverse Jackson Heights neighborhood after midnight.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Deputies pulled over Bocio in Islamorada after the taxi was seen driving erratically, per Linhardt.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The state's now-defunct and only integration program aimed to improve diversity in suburban schools, typically by busing kids from majority Black and Brown neighborhoods into majority-White suburban schools.
    Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Since Texas began busing asylum seekers to Chicago in 2022, the city has taken in tens of thousands of new arrivals—many of them Venezuelans.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The hope is that the talks could clear rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies and allow the global economy to keep motoring.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The hope in Southern California is that someday soon, the two will motor the franchise to its first Super Bowl championship.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But save your Lululemons for the plane ride over.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The Panthers rode their defense and rushing attack to a 16-13 upset win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Lambeau Field.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 2 Nov. 2025

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“Cab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cab. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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