bicycle
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All that is left now is his motorbike, one red bicycle and an assortment of tools.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
My youth was alarmingly idyllic with the hopped fences, bicycle slaloms through traffic and occasional near-misdemeanor mischief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Raleigh was founded in Nottingham in 1887 and at one stage was the biggest bicycle maker in the world, employing about 8,000 people at its peak.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
A slim man with dark hair pedals slowly by us on a dilapidated bicycle.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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But during the decades of its existence, it touched the lives of countless people, both those who worked there and those who enjoyed its bicycles.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
In 1972, ordinary Californians circulated petitions, knocked on doors, and rode bicycles down the coast, rallying support for Proposition 20, which aimed to regulate coastal development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
At the stand of Avinox, a manufacturer of motors for electric bicycles, the DNA of parent company and Chinese drone specialist DJI has been transposed to cycling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
The family has a big goal for the summer: to get the boys riding bicycles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
We all ride our bicycles all the time anyway, just to get around, but it's hardly the weather for a pleasure ride.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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We have seen many candidates in the 32 states we’ve bicycled through in the past five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
In 1970, he bicycled 3,300 miles from Los Angeles to New York to promote fitness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
During World War II, as a girl, she had bicycled across Amsterdam, delivering coded messages for her sister, a nurse in the resistance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023
When friends clacked at keyboards, examined patients, or taught middle schoolers math, I bicycled Arthur's froggy legs because humans aren't born knowing how to pass gas.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Harstine, 70, a semiretired orchard packer, said he has noticed Hispanic men bicycling through the area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
While bicycling to work, he saw the growing number of green trash bins popping up on curbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2025
Well, bicycling is one of the most tangible ways of explaining democracy.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2024
In countries where safe routes for bicycling are provided, people choose bikes as transportation more frequently as they age.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
“It was fine. I don't know. I don't really like big group outings. I don’t really even like bicycling, but I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that.”
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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