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mileage

[mahy-lij] / ˈmaɪ lɪdʒ /
NOUN
rate
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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They sold a 2021 Mitsubishi car for $15,000 and bought a cheaper Prius that had good gas mileage for $8,000 in cash.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

The food alone made the day’s mileage seem like a bargain: octopus in Galicia, Arzúa-Ulloa cheese from a farmers market or milk-fed lamb that made me forgive every hill in Castilla y León.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

One friend jokingly asked if he was drawing the Nazca lines across the city, but Papas wrote it off as just trying to clock extra mileage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

The car failed an MOT carried out on 9 February 2023 with the warning system light on - indicating a fault with the seatbelt, air bag or both and the mileage recorded at about 98,000.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

I have listened to accounts by such travelers in which every road number was remembered, every mileage recalled, and every little countryside discovered.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

At low mileages, some of them were snapping off, he said.

From BBC Dec. 18, 2024

Large SUVs such as the Chevrolet Tahoe, Toyota Sequoia, or Nissan Armada have highway gas mileages of 28, 24, and 19, respectively.

From Seattle Times Nov. 25, 2023

Using a 5 percent significance level, test the hypothesis that the three mean commuting mileages are the same.

From Textbooks Mar. 27, 2020

I would drive up to 11 hours a day during my shift and turn in mileages of 550 to 640 miles a day.

From The Guardian Jul. 11, 2013

The mileages registered by our anemometer were the mean for a whole hour, neglecting individual gusts, whose velocity much exceeded the average and which were always the potent factors in destructive work.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson




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