taxi
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Yandex, often dubbed "Russia's Google", runs the country's most popular search engine, as well as a food-ordering and taxi app used by tens of millions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Often dubbed "Russia's Google", the company runs the country's most popular search engine, as well as a food-ordering and taxi app used by tens of millions of people.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Smelling a story, Cohn took a taxi out to Brooklyn’s 2001 Odyssey club.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Archer Aviation, the San Jose-based air taxi startup, announced Monday it was taking control of Boeing’s Wisk Aero as well as the air traffic software provider SkyGrid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
A woman waiting at the taxi rank turned to stare.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Drivers and passengers of private cars, buses and taxies entering or exiting Changchun must present negative tests for the coronavirus taken within the past 48 hours.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Did a similar trip a few years ago but took local jitney's, buses, trains, taxies, even a small plane.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2016
Shifting some of the load to third party services such as Uber, Lyft or taxies would help reduce some of the load placed on already-burdened emergency service providers.
From The Verge ● Jul. 17, 2016
In Lagos, there were motorcycle taxies that could zip through the traffic jams.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2016
All the taxies were hired, all going downtown.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers are joining forces in California, where the country’s highest gas prices and a growing fleet of driverless taxis are undercutting the economics of gig work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Organizers say the union could help drivers secure more take-home pay amid high gas prices and competition from driverless taxis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Joby, a major player in the race to bring electric air taxis to market, denied the accusations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Hundreds of families were gathered at dawn to collect their relatives outside the base, where cars, taxis and buses were parked in ranks preparing to take them away, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
On his first and only journey by subway he got lost and confused, and missed his appointment; now he takes taxis only when he has to, and the rest of the time he walks.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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"The flight safely landed and taxied to the gate," they added.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Planes have to be located, then towed or taxied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
As Air Force Two taxied for takeoff bound for Germany, Vice President Kamala Harris made her way through the plane handing out heart-shaped Valentine’s Day cookies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
The co-pilot, Traci Gonzalez, said she knew the entire time that they were supposed to cross runway 31L, “but she was unaware of the airplane’s position when the captain taxied onto runway 4L,” investigators wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
Maddie taxied her little plane to the apron in front of the Operations hut and idled the engine, waiting.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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“While taxiing at Los Angeles International Airport, a Delta aircraft made contact with an Air Canada aircraft,” according to the Delta statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
As their planes were taxiing, Trump announced that he would nominate Jay Clayton, a U.S. attorney and former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, to the position permanently.
From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026
Two months before the ping pong match, Weiland had noticed an intense smell of engine oil as he was taxiing his Boeing 767 down the runway at Miami International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Analysts are comfortable that Joby’s business is taxiing toward takeoff, but its pricey multiple has tipped Wall Street’s average rating to a Sell.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
He would greet visitors, ask them to sign the guest book, and then direct them, like he was an air-traffic controller and they were taxiing airplanes, to the Serenity Suite.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Bob had been taxying about slowly since landing, in order to keep the engine going and the propeller slowly revolving.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge
We were getting near the aerodrome, on which, to my great relief, a machine was "taxying" towards the hangars.
From 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Paul Bewsher
He had to jump out of the way as the "taxying" airplane bore down on him.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Out through the open doorway Reade sent the airplane "taxying" or running along the ground.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
And taxying to Teano's, I told him in a few words what a mess I'd made of things.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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