taxi
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Ferguson travelled to her father's address in a taxi with slabs and claimed she was helping in him with his garden, the West Midlands force added.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
With a capacity to carry two passengers, it was specifically designed to provide driverless taxi services.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous taxi company, is expanding rapidly and operates in 14 cities including Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
BBC News NI also asked the EA if they could provide details on how many taxi contracts are currently out to tender and how many pupils are in a similar situation in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
He found a taxi and took it the short distance to the American embassy.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Drivers and passengers of private cars, buses and taxies entering or exiting Changchun must present negative tests for the coronavirus taken within the past 48 hours.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Did a similar trip a few years ago but took local jitney's, buses, trains, taxies, even a small plane.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2016
Shifting some of the load to third party services such as Uber, Lyft or taxies would help reduce some of the load placed on already-burdened emergency service providers.
From The Verge ● Jul. 17, 2016
In Lagos, there were motorcycle taxies that could zip through the traffic jams.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2016
All the taxies were hired, all going downtown.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
In Nairobi and other major towns, migrants from the region can be found working in barber shops and salons, construction, operating motorbike taxis and street vending, as well as selling clothes, food and household goods.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Yet it barred Zoox taxis on roads with heavy rain, snow, large quantities of leaves or a speed limit of more than 45 miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Last year, Archer bought control of Hawthorne Municipal Airport for $126 million to build a hub for electric air taxis and test advanced aviation technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Boeing is also letting go of Wisk Aero, which is developing electric, autonomous air taxis, and SkyGrid, an air-traffic management system for autonomous flights.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
I watched him crossing the street through the taxis, small, heavy, slowly sure of himself in the traffic.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"The flight safely landed and taxied to the gate," they added.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
First, as the team charter taxied to the runway, a fuel pump alert came on in the cockpit, forcing the aircraft to return to its gate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
The last was in July 2023, when a colleague complained of an acrid or vomit-like smell and was struggling to breathe as their aircraft taxied down the runway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025
As Air Force Two taxied for takeoff bound for Germany, Vice President Kamala Harris made her way through the plane handing out heart-shaped Valentine’s Day cookies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
In the first light, Bull taxied his plane to the end of the runway, looking back to see the long line of F-8’s following behind him.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
As their planes were taxiing, Trump announced that he would nominate Jay Clayton, a U.S. attorney and former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, to the position permanently.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
Earlier Tuesday, an Ethiopian Airlines cargo aircraft went off the runway while taxiing coming to a standstill in the grass, the airport said in a statement, adding the incident was under investigation.
From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026
Two months before the ping pong match, Weiland had noticed an intense smell of engine oil as he was taxiing his Boeing 767 down the runway at Miami International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Currently, the Northern Runway is currently only used for taxiing or as a back up.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
You won’t be told anything about the men and women you’ll he taxiing.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
And taxying to Teano's, I told him in a few words what a mess I'd made of things.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Bob had been taxying about slowly since landing, in order to keep the engine going and the propeller slowly revolving.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge
Out through the open doorway Reade sent the airplane "taxying" or running along the ground.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
He had to jump out of the way as the "taxying" airplane bore down on him.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
We were getting near the aerodrome, on which, to my great relief, a machine was "taxying" towards the hangars.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Paul Bewsher
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