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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
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is working to identify the occupant of the other vehicle involved in the crash.
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Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
The flying cars, or electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, were developed by Xpeng Aeroht, a subsidiary of Chinese electric vehicle giant Xpeng.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
There appeared to be a message written on one of the car's windows, Giordano said, and the bomb squad has been called in to check the vehicle.
—Robert Birsel
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
The flying cars, or electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, were developed by Xpeng Aeroht, a subsidiary of Chinese electric vehicle giant Xpeng.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
There appeared to be a message written on one of the car's windows, Giordano said, and the bomb squad has been called in to check the vehicle.
—Robert Birsel
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 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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Enforce the current rules better The H-2A program is supposed to provide fair wages, safe working conditions and free housing and transportation to workers.—
Max Blau,
ProPublica,
16 Sep. 2025
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Without access to consistent services—such as preventive health care, personal support workers, employment coaching, and transportation—many face risks of institutionalization, frequent hospitalizations, or unemployment.—
Our Place,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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More than 100 Jilin remote sensing satellites have been launched, designed to acquire information from space via remote instruments.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Merin wrote in the complaint that Gurich grabbed a writing instrument attached to an electronic signature machine, pulling the writing instrument out of Thimmhardy’s right hand and yanking the electronic signature machine off the desk.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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At its core is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force centered around the amphibious assault vessel USS Iwo Jima and two San Antonio-class transport ships.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
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Knowing how quickly molds adapt to new environments – and which genes drive those changes – could help researchers design better ways to stop rot in storage and transport.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Sep. 2025
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The future of this rapidly expanding means of devising software by tapping into the generative capabilities of modern-era AI, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Grok, Gemini, and other large language models, will be discussed.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Such compounds can form by other means, such as, for example, the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.—
Dirk Schulze-Makuch,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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In a video taken by a security camera at his mother's driveway, obtained by ABC News, a federal agent can be heard asking Gamez Lira to turn off the engine and to not resist.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Blackhawks and Kaiser’s agent had been negotiating for some time this offseason, but neither side had been in a rush, with the 23-year-old Kaiser having no arbitration rights.—
Scott Powers,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2025
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Agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere has warned of the adverse impact of tariffs on its own business, including a $600 million hit from the levies in fiscal 2025.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Modern war power is based on the flow of fighting machinery, not the stockpile.—
John Fischer,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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There are currently no global carbon pricing mechanisms.—
Michaila Byrne,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The underlying mechanisms involve immense pattern-matching based on vast arrays of human writing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vehicle. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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