eighteen-wheeler

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In the world of electric vehicles, an eighteen-wheeler is like a swimming pool — and the connections available at today’s highway stops are akin to garden hoses.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022

If the body was sacrificed on the last run, a new one is downloaded from the top floor of the team’s eighteen-wheeler workshop.

From New York Times • May 17, 2020

“A power line was hanging across the road and an eighteen-wheeler truck ran into it and got hung up in it and the Benton officer got there to help him,” Whittington said.

From Fox News • Jan. 11, 2020

She took a sip of Gatorade as she whizzed past an eighteen-wheeler.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

Now that it’s closer to us, I realize that this thing is big—about as big as an eighteen-wheeler.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer