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Recent Examples of flivver
Eight thousand fans could fit in the bleachers and grandstands, with, as a novelty, room for people in 150 cars to watch the game from their flivvers.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
In the background are two flivvers, which brought them there over bouncy roads.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2019
Leader of the campaign is a white man, the county health officer, a former Georgia farm boy who drove a flivver through fields of mud, 36 miles a day to medical school.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 July 2017
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
In the background are two flivvers, which brought them there over bouncy roads.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 30 Aug. 2019
Leader of the campaign is a white man, the county health officer, a former Georgia farm boy who drove a flivver through fields of mud, 36 miles a day to medical school.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 25 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flivver
Noun
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Remember the scene in Marvel's The Avengers, when Bruce Banner transformed into the hulk and punched a Chitauri Leviathan in the face, bringing it to a sudden halt?—
Chris McMullen,
Space.com,
28 Nov. 2025
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Jerome Grand Hotel For 44 years, the empty hulk of the United Verde Hospital loomed above the town like Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
14 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The egg-crate foam promotes airflow and cushions pressure points, and the zip-off cover is machine-washable for quick refreshes.—
Kasey Caminiti,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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In the room that houses the men’s items, the contemporary design studio We+, led by the duo of Toshiya Hayashi and Hokuto Ando, has created tables and stools made of recycled styrofoam crates used to keep seafood on ice at Tokyo’s iconic fish market.—
Kelly Wetherille,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Gardea said there are high-speed wrecks on highways through Farmington, and a lot of tourists drive through on weekends to get to the mountains.—
Charlie Lapastora,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Notably, the wreck did not have the massive 50-centimeter platters popular in the Middle East and India, but carried smaller dishes and bowls under 35 centimeters.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Feb. 2026
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Traffic on Van Buren ranged from new vehicles to old rattling jalopies stuffed with belongings.—
Douglas C. Towne,
AZCentral.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Stan would then state how urgently this jalopy was in need of cleaning, and Sandra might remark dryly how men never change.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Flivver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flivver. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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