automobile
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Previous oil-price surges have sent automobile markets into tailspins: Sales dropped 44.7 percent the year after the 1973 oil shock and more than 40 percent after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
At one end, a small but growing cohort of educated and skilled women is entering salaried roles in IT, automobile manufacturing and business services.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
That included a 30% drop in return trips from the U.S. by automobile to 1.5 million and 11% decline in trips by air from the U.S. to 718,400.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
The automobile displaced wagonmakers, yet Henry Ford’s innovations made cars affordable, raised wages and improved daily life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
He took Mother for a ride in his first automobile, some early ancestor of Foolish Carriage.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Vocabulary lists containing automobile
To Thine Own Self Be True: Auto
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: auto-
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