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taxi

[tak-see] / ˈtæk si /


NOUN
gypsy cab
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Smelling a story, Cohn took a taxi out to Brooklyn’s 2001 Odyssey club.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Often dubbed "Russia's Google", the firm runs the country's most popular search engine, as well as a food-ordering and taxi application used by tens of millions of people across the Russian-speaking world.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Both companies plan to offer a commercial air taxi service using electric aircraft that function like Ubers over congested cities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

A lone taxi waits for a passenger in the city center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The taxi rounded the statue of the inventor of the semaphore engaged in doing same, and turned up the Boulevard Raspail, and I sat back to let that part of the ride pass.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

Joby could launch air taxis in the United Arab Emirates in the next year, while Archer says its goal is to operate in Los Angeles in time for the 2028 Olympic Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

On the north side of the peninsula, Paradise Bay is home to a cluster of high-end resorts that can be reached by sleek, private water taxis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hundreds of families were gathered at dawn to collect their relatives outside the base, where cars, taxis and buses were parked in ranks preparing to take them away, AFP journalists saw.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

But Nairobi-based tour guides are worried that Uber will be as disruptive to the safari business as it has been to the city’s taxis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

I want to be Mom & Me; we’ve ridden in taxis like this since I can remember, my head, her shoulder, her arm around me.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

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

The airline confirmed that the plane had landed safely and had "taxied to stand as normal".

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024

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

And Maddie taxied other people besides me, who in all likelihood were not doing the same work as me.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure when its left wing clipped Air Canada Flight 785’s horizontal stabilizer at around 10:30 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

The African grey female named Hugo was spotted taxiing for flight by a firefighter who was carrying out a routine safety inspection.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

Analysts are comfortable that Joby’s business is taxiing toward takeoff, but its pricey multiple has tipped Wall Street’s average rating to a Sell.

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

You won’t be told anything about the men and women you’ll he taxiing.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

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

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

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

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




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