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as in car
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
went shopping for a new automobile at Valley Motors
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as in to speed
to proceed or move quickly
effortlessly motored past the other runners for a first-place finish
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Recent Examples of motor
Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
Nissan The 52-kWh version makes 174 hp (130 kW), and the 75-kWh motor generates 215 hp (160 kW).
—Chad Kirchner, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2025
Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
But while motoring out in the dark that morning, Pebley, 42, noticed that the throttle on his surface drive motor had started to stick.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2025
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Noun
These could be robot arms on assembly lines, the fins of a ballistic missile or stealth bomber, or any of the multiple motors of an electric vehicle.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 June 2025
Nissan The 52-kWh version makes 174 hp (130 kW), and the 75-kWh motor generates 215 hp (160 kW).
—Chad Kirchner, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2025
Verb
The plot is motored by their deft, defiant mouths.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
But while motoring out in the dark that morning, Pebley, 42, noticed that the throttle on his surface drive motor had started to stick.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motor
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Meanwhile, the rocket booster heads back to the ground while firing its engines and using its fins to slow and control its descent to land vertical about two miles from the launchpad.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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Powered by the ever-popular Honda i-VTEC engine, which produces 280 horsepower and 262 lb-ft of torque, the 9-speed automatic transmission was quiet and had no issues getting up and going.—
Marc D Grasso,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2025
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The net worth of Tesla’s largest shareholder Musk plummeted $12 billion as the car company’s stock flailed, by far the largest daily loss of any billionaire tracked by Forbes.—
Siladitya Ray,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Two-thirds of respondents supported banning full self-driving cars until they are proven safe.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
1 July 2025
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For such projects, L.A. County is expediting permitting timelines to speed up fire recovery.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
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Cynthia, seeing Carmen and Julius bleeding, sped to the hospital, one minute away, but Carmen was pronounced dead on arrival.—
Sally Ventura
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Preventing the spread of marijuana laced with chemicals is one of the driving factors behind Tyson's push for federal reform.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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Official data from April show that the number of Canadians driving across the border had dropped 35 percent from the previous year.—
Stephen Marche,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2025
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The way our system works is when a marked paper ballot is scanned in, the machine takes a photo of the front and back of the sheet and also creates an associated electronic file, the cast vote record, with all the relevant data from that ballot.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
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Outside the norm for places that allow access to games, Otaku doesn’t require that guests pay a fee for tokens and none of the machines take quarters.—
Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2025
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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
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His role in Days of Thunder was that of a young driver, Cole Trickle, who was new to racing.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 June 2025
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Their photos still hang on the dining room wall, along with those of sports stars, racing drivers and other celebrities who found their way to Ponder.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 June 2025
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Duran and Valera lived in a Miami bayfront condo and tooled around in a Maserati.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
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Staying at the legendary Malaysia Hotel (where Tony Wheeler wrote the first Lonely Planet guidebook), tooling around town in tuk-tuks, sipping tom yum gai at a street stall, and making the obligatory pilgrimage to the Grand Palace to view the Emerald Buddha.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Motor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motor. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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