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automobile

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verb

as in to drive
to travel by a motorized vehicle would rather automobile across the country than fly over it at 35,000 feet

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of automobile
Noun
South Korea faces a 25% reciprocal tariff rate as well as product-specific duties of 25% for steel, aluminum and automobiles — all of which are major exports. Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025 The bill would extend Trump’s 2017 cuts to personal income tax rates, and also establish new tax deductions for tips, Social Security benefits, overtime pay and interest on loans used to purchase U.S.-made automobiles — all of which Trump proposed during his 2024 presidential campaign. Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 20 May 2025 On the one hand, the opening scene begins in a car, the most familiar of locations in a filmography that has always shared Abbas Kiarostami’s fascination with automobiles as places that are both public and private all at once. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 May 2025 At the same time, the president has imposed tariffs on various sectors such as automobile imports and steel and aluminum imports, with the threat to do the same on pharmaceutical imports. Brett Samuels, The Hill, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for automobile
Recent Examples of Synonyms for automobile
Noun
  • Every aspect of the car’s attitude is controlled via your right foot.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
  • Reports cited April car production at 2.23 million units versus 1.75 million in sales, with EV inventories rising to 850,000 units from 660,000 at year-end.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Verb
  • During my visit, Leal and I drove in his vintage Jeep to 1900 Barker, a coffee shop on Lawrence’s main drag.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • The franchise has driven over half a billion hours of streams, with the original accounting for more than 280 hours.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Give ample space to large vehicles - Trucks or buses can create a water spray that diminishes visibility.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
  • Trump can be quick in throwing his fellow European leaders under the bus.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • Those motoring to work in a Rolls-Royce aren’t being left out, either.
    Susan Campos, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The man appears to briefly lift the scooter away from the child’s leg, the child gets back on the scooter, and Miller eventually motors away.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • Encryption methods that underpin today’s secure systems, such as RSA, will eventually be rendered obsolete by quantum machines.
    David Jones, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Experts, however, were quick to clarify that the malfunction was not evidence of a conscious or rebellious machine.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2025
Verb
  • Duran and Valera lived in a Miami bayfront condo and tooled around in a Maserati.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
  • Staying at the legendary Malaysia Hotel (where Tony Wheeler wrote the first Lonely Planet guidebook), tooling around town in tuk-tuks, sipping tom yum gai at a street stall, and making the obligatory pilgrimage to the Grand Palace to view the Emerald Buddha.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Automobile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/automobile. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.

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