bicycle
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All that is left now is his motorbike, one red bicycle and an assortment of tools.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mangione fled uptown on an electric bicycle, then jumped into a cab that took him to the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
For Jerry Young, 53, who was sitting near the lake with his bicycle recently, the water itself gives him pause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Raleigh was founded in Nottingham in 1887 and at one stage was the biggest bicycle maker in the world, employing about 8,000 people at its peak.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
It was only when he pushed the note into my palm as he handed the bicycle to me that I realized this wasn’t a gift from him at all.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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But during the decades of its existence, it touched the lives of countless people, both those who worked there and those who enjoyed its bicycles.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The six-month pilot started in July and uses the same batteries as many electric bicycles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
In 1972, ordinary Californians circulated petitions, knocked on doors, and rode bicycles down the coast, rallying support for Proposition 20, which aimed to regulate coastal development.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Start-up Wunderfix meanwhile offers repair services linking retailers, customers and shops via an application that allows cyclists to diagnose and, where possible, repair their bicycles themselves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Unlike the steady stream of the highway, here rickshaws, motorcycles, trucks, and cars shared the narrow roads alongside bicycles and throngs of people.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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We have seen many candidates in the 32 states we’ve bicycled through in the past five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Over the years, she had painted murals in Ghana, worked as a cook and amateur D.J. in Antarctica, and bicycled from Southern California to Maine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
When friends clacked at keyboards, examined patients, or taught middle schoolers math, I bicycled Arthur's froggy legs because humans aren't born knowing how to pass gas.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022
Then he whirled around, twirled his body and bicycled it right-footed.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2022
Papa occasionally used some money to buy more rice and once even surprised them by giving Mama money to buy one-day-old fish when the fish seller bicycled down the street ringing his bell.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Post retirement, I have returned to avid road bicycling and those years pedaling a heavy steel single-speed bike with 20 pounds of papers in all kinds of weather has really paid off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Well, bicycling is one of the most tangible ways of explaining democracy.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2024
We see Hirayama after his shift too: bicycling at twilight, scrubbing down at a bathhouse, grabbing dinner at a favorite spot, then reading before bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Examples of light physical activity are long walks, house chores, slow dancing, slow swimming, and slow bicycling.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
She had been bicycling through the air, ice cream in her hand and a book floating in front of her face.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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