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Cycling Without Age | 2024 | United States | Isaac Seigel-Boettner | John uses his pedal-powered rickshaw to give adventures to people who have lost the ability to get outside themselves.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Qi Fei helped her with the move, each of them lugging a pet carrier and a checker-print suitcase on the back of a motor rickshaw, making the half-hour journey from Yuci to the university’s campus on move-in day in August.
—Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
People were especially intrigued by imperial, foreign, and exotic subjects: queens, presidents, and maharajahs; Gothic cathedrals, volcanic mountains, the pyramids, a herd of elephants, a rickshaw.
—Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Outside dusk is falling, and the city’s streets are clogged with people heading home to break the Ramadan fast, riding on rickshaws and bicycles or traveling back in cars and buses.
—Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Qi Fei helped her with the move, each of them lugging a pet carrier and a checker-print suitcase on the back of a motor rickshaw, making the half-hour journey from Yuci to the university’s campus on move-in day in August.
—Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
People were especially intrigued by imperial, foreign, and exotic subjects: queens, presidents, and maharajahs; Gothic cathedrals, volcanic mountains, the pyramids, a herd of elephants, a rickshaw.
—Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
Outside dusk is falling, and the city’s streets are clogged with people heading home to break the Ramadan fast, riding on rickshaws and bicycles or traveling back in cars and buses.
—Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rickshaw
Noun
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Outside, a Cadillac limousine covered in thousands of coins stops passersby in their tracks.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
15 Sep. 2025
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Uber started off as a way to hire a limousine in San Francisco.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In another example, from 2012, a joint DEA-Honduran operation killed four passengers on a water taxi.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Two of our favorite hotels for park transportation are Disney’s Art of Animation Resort (with Skyliner access to EPCOT and Hollywood Studios) and The Cabins at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort (with water taxi access to the Magic Kingdom).—
Linnea Bailey,
Southern Living,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The measure also includes small changes to Houston's pedicab and jitney industries.—
Jay R. Jordan,
Chron,
17 May 2022
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Keelboats, jitney cars, horseless carriages, street cars, a railroad train, fire engine, skyway and even the Adm. Joe Fowler Sternwheeler on the Rivers of America all serve as people-movers.—
Roger Simmons,
orlandosentinel.com,
1 Oct. 2021
Noun
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An Aeromexico Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxis at Los Angeles International Airport on September 19, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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This year has also seen HALA expand its proposition beyond small businesses to Saudi Arabia’s growing community of freelance workers, who range from taxi drivers and photographers to lawyers and accountants.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The train then collided with the trailer, separating it from the cab, breaking it into multiple parts and rolling it.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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After searching the vehicle, investigators found 22 bundles of cocaine hidden in a tool box under the bed in the cab, the complaint said.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Rickshaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rickshaw. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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