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as in taxi
an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled called a cab to get back to the hotel

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verb

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Recent Examples of cab
Noun
This will increase total seating capacity from five to six, and allow a couple (or throuple) to nuzzle up to each other in the cab. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2024 Find a natural reason to be near them—like an elevator ride, in the back of a cab, or sitting next to each other on a couch. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
Some fans walked away from the stadium to grab an Uber or cab back to their hotels. Bryan West, USA TODAY, 25 May 2024 Mansukhani, a designer in New York and a daughter of immigrants, said her uncle, Umesh Reghuram, wired money to cab drivers, vegetable peddlers and maids. Dr. Divya Chhabra, ABC News, 10 May 2021 See all Example Sentences for cab 
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Noun
  • Base fares start as low as 4 yuan (around 55 cents), compared with 18 yuan (around $2.48) for a taxi driven by a human, according to state media outlet Global Times.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Expect a taxi from the airport to cost around €50 plus possible surcharges for luggage.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • False: Social media posts claim Harris voters bused from New York to Pennsylvania Social media users are claiming Kamala Harris voters from New York City are being bused to vote in Pennsylvania.
    Layla Ferris, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The analysis did not include people bused from those two southern states to elsewhere in Mexico.
    Emily Green, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Not quite a Saturday morning canyon carver, instead this Benz serves perfectly as the Sunday brunch cruiser, a true time capsule from a bygone era of motoring that Mercedes, and almost every automaker, can still learn from today.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Although Kadyrov has denied sending Chechen troops to Ukraine, there have been numerous sightings of heavily armed Chechen battalions motoring through the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
    Nicholas Waller, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2015
Verb
  • Authorities said Kerr accelerated toward the deputy before riding away as the deputy chased him.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
  • But last week, tens of thousands of Chinese university students followed a viral trend, riding bikes for more than five hours through the night to Kaifeng for the ancient capital's famous soup dumplings.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024

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“Cab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cab. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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