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bicycle

[bahy-si-kuhl, -sik-uhl, -sahy-kuhl] / ˈbaɪ sɪ kəl, -ˌsɪk əl, -ˌsaɪ kəl /
NOUN
pedal-driven recreational vehicle
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I remember the rosemary, the bicycle ride, the pleasure of discovering another cook’s cupboards.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Musk is giving you a child’s bicycle from Walmart.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Investigators found that the woman was riding east in the bicycle lane on Warner Avenue east of Brightwater Drive when she hit the raised concrete curb and fell, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

It features the first bicycle backflip caught on film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

I remembered the book we were reading aloud by bicycle lamp, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The footage shown to jurors at Cambridge Crown Court on Thursday also captured passengers barricading themselves inside using bicycles.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The study also found that people involved in e-bike collisions suffer more injuries than those in collisions involving traditional bicycles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Near the iconic Place de la Republique in central Paris, broken glass and debris littered the roads, as a pile of burning bicycles belched out thick smoke.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

"I've brought over the man who repairs bicycles in Wolvercote, people who repair sewing, people who do computers, who sharpen knives."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The buses, and cabs, and bicycles, and skateboards.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds

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

Mamdani and Brad Lander appeared together on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and bicycled to joint events in all corners of the city.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025

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

Before his death, Carroll, who had bicycled to the monastery almost every day, represented the sisters to city officials, relaying their concerns about the noise in the park.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023

“We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Harstine, 70, a semiretired orchard packer, said he has noticed Hispanic men bicycling through the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 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

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

“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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