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 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 Police later released a photo taken from a security camera inside a taxicab, which gave a clear image of the suspect’s eyes. Holly Yan, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for taxicab
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  • Roth was released from prison in June 1985 after serving 16 years for the fatal shooting of a Topeka taxi driver.
    Stephanie Warsmith, USA Today, 8 June 2025
  • Junior suites deliver enough space for a family of three to sprawl out in between taxi rides into Venice, and a poolside rooftop bar offers respite for parents monitoring high energy kiddos swimming away summertime twilight.
    Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Carpenter’s publicist tells her that earlier, her cab driver was asking who was playing the O2.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
  • Rioters set Waymo cabs ablaze in Los Angeles last night in the ongoing spasm of violence the last several days over federal immigration enforcement in the West Coast metropolis.
    The Editors, National Review, 9 June 2025

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