rickshaw
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Every day by 9 a.m., she and her husband arrive on a cycle rickshaw from home with a gas stove and other paraphernalia and work until around 5 p.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
"Some of their parents are rickshaw pullers, labourers, or tea vendors... Some cannot afford it and quit football. I feel like quitting too every time I see a girl leaving the game."
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
On the other side, the army had positioned a broken rickshaw van to break the fall.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
“We will have a beautiful future, God willing,” said Mahmoud Mustafa, a rickshaw driver clutching a plastic food bowl.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
As she listened Naima caught sight of an old-fashioned rickshaw.
From "Rickshaw Girl" by Mitali Perkins
Next to his shop is a parking lot for cycle rickshaws, another crisis-proof mode of transportation.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
“Now most of us are doing work like driving rickshaws and taxis,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2025
There are motorised vehicles like cars, buses and motorcycles vying for space with non-motorised transport such as bicycles, cycle rickshaws and handcarts, animal-drawn carts, pedestrians and stray animals.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
Flavorful street food sizzles on every corner, rickshaws and scooters blare their horns in symphonic competition, and cats and dogs thread between your legs as pedestrians shuffle shoulder to shoulder.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
Two shiny black rickshaws had arrived and behind them a large black motorcar.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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