as in taxi
an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled took a taxicab to the airport

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Recent Examples of taxicab The show, which centered on a New York City taxicab company, premiered on ABC in September 1978, ultimately being dropped by ABC and picked up by the peacock for its final season. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025 On a recent Tuesday morning outside Union Station’s train hall in Washington, a stream of taxicabs, Ubers and Lyfts pulled to the curb to pick up passengers. The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025 Adding insult to injury, in justifying the new guidance, the FTA painted a revisionist history, insisting that the programs utilizing the taxicab exemption have a mistaken understanding of the regulations—apparently more than a decade's worth of errors that went unnoticed until now. Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025 The gunman then pedaled a bicycle through Central Park, took a taxicab to a bus station and then rode the subway to a train station before fleeing to Pennsylvania, authorities said. Mark Scolforo, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for taxicab
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Noun
  • Tencent runs China’s biggest messaging app called WeChat, which integrates features like payments and the ability to hail taxis or order food.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 23 June 2025
  • After 15 days, the taxi drivers struck a deal with officials to help rescue the thousands of workers from their crushing loans.
    Time, Time, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • And Lyft is slated to launch its own self-driving cab service in Dallas, Texas, sometime in 2026.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 June 2025
  • Musk appears to be on the verge of making his robotaxi vision a reality with a test run of a small squad of self-driving cabs in Austin, Texas, that began Sunday.
    Bernard Condon, Fortune, 22 June 2025

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“Taxicab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taxicab. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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