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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
In Fort Worth, Texas, police had been pursuing a car which had been driving without headlights on Interstate 35 when the car hit multiple other vehicles and eventually crashed, killing the driver, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.
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ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
The three-vehicle collision resulted in several people being taken to a hospital, including one who was in critical condition, police said.
—Timia Cobb, Dallas Morning News, 5 Apr. 2026
The vehicle was later found damaged in San Jose, where it was also recovered.
—Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
Even larger firms such as Google have accidentally exposed internal documentation at public URLs, and data associated with Tesla vehicles has been exposed through misconfigured third‑party servers.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2026
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ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
The three-vehicle collision resulted in several people being taken to a hospital, including one who was in critical condition, police said.
—Timia Cobb, Dallas Morning News, 5 Apr. 2026
The vehicle was later found damaged in San Jose, where it was also recovered.
—Jake Richardson, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
Even larger firms such as Google have accidentally exposed internal documentation at public URLs, and data associated with Tesla vehicles has been exposed through misconfigured third‑party servers.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2026
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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 state's assembly transportation committee will be holding a hearing on the lowrider license plate bill next Monday afternoon.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Jay Blackman Jay Blackman is an NBC News producer covering such areas as transportation, space, medical and consumer issues.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
4 Apr. 2026
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Fifteen of those are mounted to Integrity; the other 17 are handheld instruments operated by the astronauts.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2026
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Under its current framework, the Fund has supported initiatives related to transport development, agricultural improvement, and regional economic activity.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Consumers may see higher prices sooner rather than later, because of higher transport costs with pricier diesel.—
Kayla Steinberg,
NBC news,
2 Apr. 2026
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McLeod also emphasized the urgency of incorporating and said that many people get the wrong message about what becoming a city means.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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Luna himself has acknowledged never finding any, and department policy has always provided for the means to discipline and terminate any employee who engages in behavior that harms the public, fellow employees, or is otherwise prohibited by law.—
Opinion Staff,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Wise served as an FBI agent and a supervisory agent from 2004 to 2017.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The task force, consisting of county detectives and FBI agents, is separate from the initial homicide squad assigned to the case.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Beyond delivering machinery and expertise, co-development with Sulzer should strengthen Spinnova’s offering to scale up its technology.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Despite bombardment and economic collapse, the regime’s machinery of repression is fully active.—
Kazem Kazerounian,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2026
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The new atlas, published March 11 in the scientific journal Cell, details the ways in which genome structure, gene activity and methylation (a biochemical mechanism for regulating gene expression) change across eight brain regions and 36 brain cell types.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
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As talks continued, Iranian and Omani officials also were working on a mechanism for administrating the strait through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped in peacetime.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vehicle. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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