cabby
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Metropolitan Diary: The cabby and the cat food.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
A cabby stood on top with a whip, and Allegra, dignified in his period dress, stood at his side.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
Mr. Simon, 61, a former cabby and parking-lot manager who immigrated from Haiti at 13 and started showing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 30s, will probably spend the rest of his life locked away.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2022
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
The cabby makes a few other attempts to get a conversation going, but Alicia just nods or murmurs a little, so the guy gives up and punches up a country station on the radio.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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Robotaxis pose a fresh threat to London’s traditional cabbies, whose numbers have declined rapidly in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
From the Southgate Centre, on the city’s southern edge, to the downtown financial district, it seemed as if everyone, from students and shopkeepers to cabbies and the cable guy, were wearing Oiler sweaters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2025
This has been a long, bitter dispute and, as one said to me, cabbies have very long memories.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
Transit workers like train engineers, bus drivers, cabbies, and rideshare workers get passengers to the airport, while parking attendants and shuttle drivers help millions of others navigate arrival.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
The cabbies are threatening a one-day strike of all New York.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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