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[moh-ter] / ˈmoʊ tər /


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Core sales, which exclude fuel as well as motor vehicles and parts, were up a third month running.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“Because we lose the ability to exert force quickly as we get older. Plyometrics — involving motor control, coordination, agility and reactivity — trains quick responses.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

What would Aston Martin see as a good result at the next race, where Honda will be bringing a new motor?

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Senior officials last month described the planned 50% tariffs on Canada as a response to the country’s discrimination against U.S. alcoholic beverages, U.S. dairy products and U.S. motor vehicles.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Then he turns back to his truck, grabbing the engine crank on the front to start the motor.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

They have throttles and much more powerful motors and may only be ridden legally on private land with the owner's permission.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

The suit used braces to support the legs, motors to help rotate joints, weight and motion sensors and a battery pack.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

General Motors is expanding its production of V-8 engines by scrapping an earlier plan to make EV motors at a plant in western New York.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

High-horsepower outboard motors have helped the boating industry navigate a choppy economy better than other discretionary goods makers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Living physiology should be explicable in terms of physics, biophysicists argued—forces, motions, actions, motors, engines, levers, pulleys, clasps.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The day after Ida struck, Story motored through the bayou in his boat, photographing his camp and others to reassure neighbors their cabins had survived.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

As the boat motored across the sea, Brazilian activist Thiago Avila said other nations should come to Cuba's aid.

From Barron's Mar. 24, 2026

Max Jorgensen ate up space down the right, then Joseph Suaalii motored past Bundee Aki to put the Wallabies into dream territory.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2025

For some reason—the police cited low tide; Mafart claimed the problem was fishermen at the pickup spot—Dillais motored past Teal Park heading east.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2025

And Sally and the remaining two of her brood still in the nest motored up every day from Dona Luz.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

It’s like a Brigadoon of the state’s motoring past.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

As you’re motoring away on your time off this summer, perhaps even driving over that very “Grapevine” on the I-5, here’s some backstory drama for you to take along in the passenger seat.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

But a rival motoring group, the upstart American Automobile Association, feared that a race on open roads would tarnish the industry’s already-poor record on safety, and lobbied against it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

According to motoring firm the RAC, the average price of unleaded petrol reached 152.52p a litre on Monday, the highest since the start of the war.

From BBC May 20, 2026

Other boats were pulling out, he saw, motoring past the buoys in Amity Harbor on their way to the salmon grounds.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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