chauffeur
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The man needs a chauffeur more than group therapy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
His parents worked for a wealthy family, his mother as a cook and his father as a chauffeur.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Others chauffeur children to school, or shop for families who are afraid to venture into public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The actor brought Lee the script, a reimagined take on a novel that once inspired a 1963 Akira Kurosawa film about a class divide involving a kidnapping, a businessman and a chauffeur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Thursday morning, we are on our way to Oscar’s house for class, Sam and Mundín and I. His chauffeur has the day off, so Mr. Washburn is driving.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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Items Manifold listed at the time included the use of chauffeurs and private jets, and blocks of tickets to Wimbledon tennis matches purchased for employees and clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
"They paid for all my hotels, chauffeurs... to allow me to perform the job that I did," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
John Lennon, who in life was such a terrible driver that he hired chauffeurs for the safety of those around him, is in command of the main spaceship.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
Once again, it was the chauffeurs who took the rap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
She and her aunt picked their way across the cobblestones, avoiding the horses with their brisk clippity clops and the boxy black cars with chauffeurs in patent-brimmed caps.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Besides security services at home and during personal travel, that can include elaborate home-alarm systems, bodyguards or company cars chauffeured by specially trained drivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Nearly every Saturday morning my mother ferried me to and from synagogue; in the evening she chauffeured me to whichever hotel ballroom was hosting the reception.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
And when boarding is set to commence, guests are chauffeured in a BMW directly to the aircraft door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2024
Gray, whose portfolio includes sport, has been under fire after it emerged he had been chauffeured to six football matches at Hampden since becoming a minister, four of which included the team he supports.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
After the welcoming ceremony and a tour of the city’s recently modernized ports and boulevards, the chauffeured car turned on to Paissandu Street, famous for the lanky royal palm trees that lined each side.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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Cars and drivers are typically pitched to shareholders as a security expense, not a chauffeuring perk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
During a chance encounter chauffeuring François Truffaut around, the master auteur told the desperate factotum that he had an eye for directing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
The technology went from a perpetual “six months away” to chauffeuring masses of riders this year as both companies gathered experience in pilot cities and used that knowledge to expand to others.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2023
Among a circle of nondriving peers, Schuessler’s kids love to be behind the wheel, so they often find themselves chauffeuring carloads of older friends.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
“More money in chauffeuring and dog-sitting,” she mumbled.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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