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rockaway

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as in surrey

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Recent Examples of rockaway The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage. — Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024

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Already open in the development are a seafood market and restaurant, a bike and surrey rental service, the LA Maritime Institute and whale watching and harbor cruises.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.

— Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Definition of surrey

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Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.

— Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.

— Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018

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After the crash, investigators found a tablet in the cab of the truck that was open to YouTube, according to court documents.

— Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2026
Sidewalk sheds are as much a part of the New York streetscape as yellow cabs, corner bodegas, and towering skyscrapers.

— Ahmed Tigani, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026

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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.

— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdown, joined Charles and Camilla in their landau, while her daughter Lady Sarah Chatto traveled in the third carriage with her husband, Daniel.

— Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023

Definition of landau

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During the period known as the Xi (Western) Zhou dynasty (1046–771 bce), warfare had been dominated by aristocratic elites and chariot forces and was generally conducted by armies smaller than those of subsequent centuries.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Moments later, Sol’s chariot resumed its fiery march across the sky, just as modern science predicted.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of chariot

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Pace sold Jean Dubuffet’s painting La chaise (1964) for a price over $5 million.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
In the living room, a cardboard chair by British designer Max Lamb faces a Le Corbusier Lc4 chaise chair by Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret for Cassina covered in a cowhide.

— Gay Gassmann, Architectural Digest, 19 Oct. 2026

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