cabby
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“A city has to move,” one cabby said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Mr. Gory, the Uber driver who was a cabby for 20 years, makes about $800 a week with the app service and still owes about $51,000 on his 2022 Toyota Highlander.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Clean sounds a little like a cabby whom cinephiles became familiar with in the 1970s, no?
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
A carriage cabby sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor in 19th-century Edinburgh.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2020
Our cabby was craning out of his window with a furious, purple expression.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
London’s cabbies were fierce opponents of Uber after it launched in London in 2012, blocking streets and launching legal challenges.
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
He is one of many Hong Kongers who have a story to tell about their city's infamous cabbies.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
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
Many college graduates were forced to work as cabbies or waitresses after graduation, but they retained the confidence of a public identity.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
