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as in instrumentality
something used to achieve an end
used organized protests as a vehicle for change
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as in transportation
something used to carry goods or passengers
bought a larger vehicle after they had a third baby
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Recent Examples of vehicle
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tesla — The electric vehicle maker’s stock jumped more than 4% after Business Insider reported that Tesla’s robotaxi service will debut in San Francisco as soon as this weekend.
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Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 July 2025
Motorcyclists should know their gross vehicle weight rating and remember, luggage counts as weight.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Police added that the vehicle was last captured on a traffic camera at around 8 p.m. local time in Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 July 2025
Picture Florida in 2045: with 26 million residents, millions of electric vehicles, and data centers powering the digital economy.
—Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
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Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 July 2025
Motorcyclists should know their gross vehicle weight rating and remember, luggage counts as weight.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Police added that the vehicle was last captured on a traffic camera at around 8 p.m. local time in Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 July 2025
Picture Florida in 2045: with 26 million residents, millions of electric vehicles, and data centers powering the digital economy.
—Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vehicle
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They are left wielding the tools of instrumentality: in-groups and cliques, buying effort through more money, coercive employment agreements and suits against whistleblowers.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Holding the weight of cotton’s influence on the world, and thus the instrumentality of Black labor, is painful, yet necessary work.—
Cierra Black,
Essence,
9 July 2025
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The dollars raised by the Host Committee went to the build-out of Fiserv Forum into a TV-ready space, transportation for delegates, rental of the three convention venues and the welcome party for 15,000 people the night before the convention kicked off, Prange said previously.—
Alison Dirr,
jsonline.com,
31 July 2025
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The Changing Landscape of Mobility Technology is also rapidly transforming the concept of personal transportation.—
Selika Josiah Talbott,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Even the original one-month extension would have been too little time to arrange for, and fine-tune, other instruments to match the previous data for scientific continuity, Cortinas said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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But the 2017 event was only recently identified through re-analysis using satellite instruments, including NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16).—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 July 2025
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Other issues — visa denials, exorbitant costs, America’s allergy to public transport — could be a stain on the tournament, and are just as important to document.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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According to Wisk, its Generation 6 aircraft is the world's first autonomous, all-electric, four-seat air taxi designed for daily passenger transport.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The agent had a pressing question: How could his coaching clients include international athletes in the evolving NIL landscape?—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The listing agents are anxious to share more history and information about the Charles Cheney home.—
Karen A. Avitabile,
Hartford Courant,
3 Aug. 2025
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Police have not released any further details about the machinery involved or Hunter’s injuries at this time, but the investigation is ongoing.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
4 Aug. 2025
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Yet the machinery for managing the reserve remains primitive.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Replace people with mechanisms to drive labor costs down and profits up.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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Cue the organ, warm the confetti cannon and watch a dozen communities cram a lifetime of softball joy into eight delirious days.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
1 Aug. 2025
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Rather than something that happens to one organ at a time, the findings suggest that aging should be regarded as a whole-body process.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vehicle. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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