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 Grocery stores, schools, a movie theater, a bowling alley, churches, dry cleaners, employment services, taxicab companies, banks, restaurants, law firms, photography studios. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2025 Years ago, startups called Uber and Airbnb changed the way Americans thought about taxicabs and hotels. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 10 June 2025 Probst’s hilarious cross-continental vote delivery first appeared in season 4, Survivor: Marquesas when the host hailed a New York City taxicab to take him and the voting urn to Central Park for the big winner reveal. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 May 2025 Fighters were delivered from the hotel a couple of blocks away by cars, with Lopez arriving in a traditional yellow taxicab and Garcia coming in Batman’s vehicle. Brian Mahoney, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for taxicab
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  • In the city that doesn’t sleep, Mamdani, the 34-year-old frontrunner, ate biryani with taxi drivers in Queens’ ever-diverse Jackson Heights neighborhood after midnight.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Deputies pulled over Bocio in Islamorada after the taxi was seen driving erratically, per Linhardt.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The design included a sleek, jet-age body and forward cab placement to distance occupants from radiation exposure.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Living in an expensive city, surrounded by colleagues who billed a hundred hours a week and ordered cabs home at midnight, McCoy was always the poorest man in the room.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Taxicab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taxicab. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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