as in car
a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels
got a license to drive a motor vehicle the minute she turned 16
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Recent Examples of motor vehicle
Read, a successful equity analyst and former adjunct finance professor, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a collision causing death.
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Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 19 June 2025
Patrol officers responded to the area of Garden Street, just north of Asylum Avenue, around 11:07 a.m. on a report of a serious motor vehicle crash, according to Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police Department.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2025
Theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories (subset of larceny) – The unlawful taking of any part or accessory affixed to the interior or exterior of a motor vehicle in a manner which would make the item an attachment of the vehicle or necessary for its operation.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025
Jeremiah Mullins pleaded guilty to second-degree motor vehicle theft, aggravated robbery and attempted second-degree kidnapping, court records show.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 16 June 2025
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Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 19 June 2025
Patrol officers responded to the area of Garden Street, just north of Asylum Avenue, around 11:07 a.m. on a report of a serious motor vehicle crash, according to Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police Department.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2025
Theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories (subset of larceny) – The unlawful taking of any part or accessory affixed to the interior or exterior of a motor vehicle in a manner which would make the item an attachment of the vehicle or necessary for its operation.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025
Jeremiah Mullins pleaded guilty to second-degree motor vehicle theft, aggravated robbery and attempted second-degree kidnapping, court records show.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for motor vehicle
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
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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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“Motor vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motor%20vehicle. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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