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streetcar

[street-kahr] / ˈstritˌkɑr /
NOUN
cable car
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NOUN
tram
Synonyms


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The city is increasing public transit to the stadium on match days but keeping subway, bus and streetcar prices at normal levels of less than $4 a ride.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Engineering student Mahmoud Bassam, 24, has visited Alexandria just to ride the streetcar "since our tram in Cairo was removed", he told AFP.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

The streetcar labored on, moving away from the landmarks she knew, the greengrocer’s, the movie theater, the fire hydrants and neighborhood newspaper stands.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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