mileage
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They sold a 2021 Mitsubishi car for $15,000 and bought a cheaper Prius that had good gas mileage for $8,000 in cash.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
My mileage was coming in consistently below that mark in mixed but unexceptional driving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
But even those guys — besides 30-year-old Porzingis, they’re all in their late-30s or early 40s, with a ton of NBA mileage — aren’t beating Father Time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The car failed an MOT carried out on 9 February 2023 with the warning system light on - indicating a fault with the seatbelt, air bag or both and the mileage recorded at about 98,000.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“The godliness of humanity,” I said, getting a little more mileage out of the tiny trucker.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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At low mileages, some of them were snapping off, he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
When the ID-4 first climbed up Siskiyou Pass at the southern edge of Oregon, I got anxious as the strain of the uphill grind prompted the range forecaster to quickly reduce the forecast mileages.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
But in five days of following Young’s every move, Cantrell didn’t witness any indication that he was capable of achieving the mileages he claimed in the first days of his transcontinental run.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2016
Using a 5% significance level, test the hypothesis that the three mean commuting mileages are the same.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
The mileages registered by our anemometer were the mean for a whole hour, neglecting individual gusts, whose velocity much exceeded the average and which were always the potent factors in destructive work.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson