Thesaurus results for CARS

cars

noun

plural of car

as in automobiles

a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels every teenager's dream of getting a driver's license and a first car

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Recent Examples of cars Because of that, that black carbon has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon that's released from surface sources like ships, cars and power plants. —

Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 18 May 2026 Beijing controls the supply chain for many obscure minerals that are critical components of smartphones, cars and weapons. —

Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 May 2026 There are toy cars in every cup holder. —

Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 Marettimo The most remote of the Egadi Islands, tiny Marettimo—accessible via ferry from Trapani—remains delightfully rustic thanks to its limited accessibility, near absence of cars, and lack of large hotels. —

Nicky Swallow, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026 But that one rampaging invader unleashes enough destruction and mayhem for a whole army, hurling cars and trucks and motorcycles through the air like toys, tearing though buildings as if they were made of cardboard, and leaving the streets littered with bloodied corpses. —

David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026 Early on, John and I pulled a trick from our own childhoods, asking Robbie to count cars on a passing train. —

Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 17 May 2026 When Hype Luxury launched in 2016, its initial focus was on high-end cars such as Rolls-Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Jaguar, and Audi. —

Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026 This is a big problem for the at least 3,000 people in our three-county area who sleep outside or in their cars each night. —

Michael Perkins, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2026

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Noun

Like a vibrantly hued snake darting down the narrow branch of a tree, the collective of high-performance automobiles rapidly navigates the narrow, serpentine artery along the Northeastern Italian coast, a quicksilver-like tracing of the border between Il Bel Paese and Slovenia.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 11 May 2026
After the Second World War, streetcar usage declined precipitously, as many white middle-class and working-class Angelenos bought automobiles and moved out of the city’s core.

— Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026