as in car
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
with the coming of the horseless carriage, distances between places were greatly reduced and the national landscape was transformed
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Recent Examples of horseless carriage
Uriah Smith thought that sticking a horse head on the front of a horseless carriage would prevent horses from getting upset upon seeing one.
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Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
Ferdinand Porsche first put them in a prototype horseless carriage in 1900.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
There’s no argument that today’s cars, trucks, and SUVs are built and engineered far better than at any point since the days of the horseless carriage.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 26 May 2022
Within a decade, however, the horseless carriage had greatly reduced demand for horse clippers.
—Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 18 May 2022
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Larry Printz, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
Ferdinand Porsche first put them in a prototype horseless carriage in 1900.
—WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
There’s no argument that today’s cars, trucks, and SUVs are built and engineered far better than at any point since the days of the horseless carriage.
—Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 26 May 2022
Within a decade, however, the horseless carriage had greatly reduced demand for horse clippers.
—Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 18 May 2022
See All Example Sentences for horseless carriage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horseless carriage
Noun
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Should a person rent a car, transponders are movable from one vehicle to another.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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On July 4, 1994, a car transporting Bosio’s two young children was rammed by a colectivo — the Buenos Aires public buses, often manned by notoriously aggressive drivers.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
Noun
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Buzz looks and feels different with a vehicle that sits somewhere between a minivan and a small bus.—
Utkarsh Sood
June 29,
New Atlas,
29 June 2025
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Some were by bus, some on foot, and some a combination of both.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 June 2025
Noun
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In Los Angeles, the boom translated to an influx of new workers who had moved west, seduced by the lure of movies as much as the location’s oil fields and automobile manufacturers, and the city saw its population double between 1920 and 1925.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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Bertha, the wife of automobile inventor Karl Benz, made the first long-distance drive in history, back when the vehicle was still a prototype, and the roads were barely there, and such a voyage was a revolution.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
23 June 2025
Noun
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If a ballot isn't cast in person, as is the case with overseas ballots and absentee ballots, or may have been folded, crumpled or smeared, election workers have to take the ballot submitted and create one on the ballot paper that can be read by the vote-counting machines.—
Tom Sissom,
Arkansas Online,
26 June 2025
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Provide confidence scores, user guidance and clear escalation paths so employees know when to trust the machine and when to take control.—
Chris Brown,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Horseless carriage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horseless%20carriage. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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