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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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Trump hosted Putin in Alaska in August for a historic summit, rolling out the red carpet and having Putin ride in the presidential limousine from the tarmac in Anchorage to the meeting site.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
24 Sep. 2025
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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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After calling ahead for a water taxi in Ischia Ponte, we were ferried over to Da Maria's pier, and then welcomed into the open-air dining room, which faces the Gulf of Naples.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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Star & Crescent was in the passenger ferry/water taxi business, and five and sometimes six shore boats made the loop out to the Point Loma daily.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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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
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This is why visitors often experience aggressive street vendors, taxi scams or 'guides' demanding tips after offering unsolicited help.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The mosque’s chairman works a taxi driver and relied on the car as his livelihood, according to the manager.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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According to court documents, Tole told authorities that Sanchez — who was running wind sprints in the alleyway — climbed into the cab of his truck, smelled of alcohol, and was slurring his speech.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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Crewmember James Walters was recording from the cab of his 20-ton lift crane as one of the buoys was released 5 nautical miles north of Port Angeles, Washington, and 3 nautical miles south of Race Rocks, British Columbia, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Rickshaw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rickshaw. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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