cabby
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After moving to DeKalb, Ill., west of Chicago, to be closer to his brother, he worked as a cabby and as an Uber driver.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
A cabby stood on top with a whip, and Allegra, dignified in his period dress, stood at his side.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
Clean sounds a little like a cabby whom cinephiles became familiar with in the 1970s, no?
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
The cabby makes a few other attempts to get a conversation going, but Alicia just nods or murmurs a little, so the guy gives up and punches up a country station on the radio.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, which represents the famously opinionated cabbies, attributed their decline to the pandemic and said numbers would stabilize in the coming years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
This has been a long, bitter dispute and, as one said to me, cabbies have very long memories.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Transit workers like train engineers, bus drivers, cabbies, and rideshare workers get passengers to the airport, while parking attendants and shuttle drivers help millions of others navigate arrival.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
The show, about a group of New York City cabbies, most of whom wished they were working elsewhere, starred Judd Hirsch as a driver who seemed resigned to his fate.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
Many college graduates were forced to work as cabbies or waitresses after graduation, but they retained the confidence of a public identity.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
