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
He was ordered to leave the headphones many hours' drive away in Poland where he noticed "a guy on a bicycle" collect them from beside the road.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
My youth was alarmingly idyllic with the hopped fences, bicycle slaloms through traffic and occasional near-misdemeanor mischief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
I asked, resting my bicycle against the wall.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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A builder who can balance items like sheds, ladders and bicycles on his chin is hoping to break a world record.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
There was a fireworks show after the fourth inning, with kids riding bicycles onto the field a la “The Sandlot.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
The family has a big goal for the summer: to get the boys riding bicycles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
It’s early, but still there are so many people doing so many things—walking or talking or sitting or standing or running or riding bicycles.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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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
Nicole slowly bicycled her legs out in front of her.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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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
In 2008, he retired from that firm — now simply called Evercore, Inc. — after he was seriously injured in a bicycling accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
Well, bicycling is one of the most tangible ways of explaining democracy.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2024
In countries where safe routes for bicycling are provided, people choose bikes as transportation more frequently as they age.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
“It was fine. I don't know. I don't really like big group outings. I don’t really even like bicycling, but I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that.”
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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