pedal
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It appears “investors have the pedal to the metal” at borrowing to invest in the stock market, said Opsal.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The brake pedal wasn’t applied in the final minute before the crash occurred, the affidavit said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Tesla’s vice president of AI and software Ashok Elluswamy wrote in a post on X that the driver had manually pressed the accelerator pedal down.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is considerable excitement at the moment, as there are indications this is changing - as if "someone is taking their foot off the pedal".
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
I thought that later I might also play the piano, something quiet, using the soft pedal.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Just a few days earlier, U.S. regulators proposed nixing rules requiring manual brake pedals in autonomous vehicles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Among them is 52-year-old Harish Chandra, who pedals a cycle-rickshaw through Delhi's crowded streets until the heat becomes too much to bear.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The most enthusiastic users have even bought programmable foot pedals, a gaming accessory, so they can activate Wispr with their toes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
It’s also making a four-wheel electric vehicle with pedals designed to deliver cargo.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
I was going to yell out and explain it all to her, but while I was coordinating the pedals and the steering and my tilting body at the same time, I stalled the car.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
"It's a great honour to receive the fantastic prize and I look forward to being pedaled around all of the media studios to air my story," said Mr Can.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
We had doubts as we pedaled off from the Pacific Coast cliffs and onto our summer bicycle route across America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
I pedaled slowly for the next few blocks, not watching for opening car doors, broken glass or potholes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
On 1 July 2023, as Tour de France riders pedaled out of Bilbao, Spain, toward the French Pyrenees mountains, sports cardiologist Andre La Gerche tuned in from Melbourne, Australia.
From Science Magazine ● May 14, 2024
At the bottom of the hill, he pedaled harder, shooting up that earthy incline.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Most days, Mr. Voiles said, he pedalled the animals up to a hill above the Mississippi River where he braids crosses, fleurs-de-lis and other items, which he sells to pay for pet food and rent.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Over the next six months I pedalled across the mountains of Yunnan, wandered the imperial palace in Beijing, and rode a train hauled by two soot-blackened steam engines far west into the deserts of Xinjiang.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2022
Grabbing his bicycle from a parking lot, he pedalled on Shanghai's deserted roads past swank office towers to find a place to pitch a small tent he and his girlfriend had bought for travelling.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
Knowing that such nonsense is being pedalled publicly, you cannot help but speculate what Benedict intended by publishing his letter earlier this month.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2019
The other pedalled its narrow shoulders up and down, stalking the open door.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
“This is my favorite place in the world, no matter what the crowds are like,” he said before pedaling off.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Riders can choose an electric-assist level that makes pedaling easier or harder.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Chopin sought to convey these moods through explicit performing directions about fingering, pedaling and slurring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
“He was just delighted,” Wilder said of Bush on that day, pedaling through a brand-new track in Beijing that had not existed weeks earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
He whirled around and began pedaling back toward the library just as desperately as he’d been pedaling away from it.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
And Lime's latest move appears to be an attempt to help change habits for commuters - not just those already scooting or pedalling for leisure.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
"I'm just kicking myself because I had to stop pedalling with 20 metres to the line. It is what it is."
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
Lambie, 33, says the only similarity to cycling is that the cyclors are pedalling in the same motion as on a regular bike.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
He's been riding his bike locally but is fed up with just pedalling "around the block".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
Eric was squealing louder than ever and pedalling the air with his legs.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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