taxi
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Med Trimdal, a retired electrical engineer in Las Vegas who tried a Zoox taxi in June, said he found the lack of a driver disconcerting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"You should have come in a taxi," they sang.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Waymo, Tesla and five other driverless taxi companies are racing to roll out service in dozens of U.S. cities, and we mapped them all out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The court heard that as the police officers tended to the taxi driver, a motorist who had been driving behind the police car when they were both overtaken by the BMW arrived on the scene.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
I wish that I hadn’t fallen asleep in the taxi.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
Yet it barred Zoox taxis on roads with heavy rain, snow, large quantities of leaves or a speed limit of more than 45 miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
She says finding available taxis has become more difficult, even with London Taxicard scheme, a subsidised taxi service for people with mobility impairments or severe sight loss.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Archer got its start one year earlier, aiming to bring piloted air taxis to the mass market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Boeing is also letting go of Wisk Aero, which is developing electric, autonomous air taxis, and SkyGrid, an air-traffic management system for autonomous flights.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
“These are little buses that drive through the towns. They’re like taxis, only you share them with other people. Brilliant, Charlie!”
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
First, as the team charter taxied to the runway, a fuel pump alert came on in the cockpit, forcing the aircraft to return to its gate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
The last was in July 2023, when a colleague complained of an acrid or vomit-like smell and was struggling to breathe as their aircraft taxied down the runway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025
The airline confirmed that the plane had landed safely and had "taxied to stand as normal".
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
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
“Who came back?” the ground crew called out as the Po-2 taxied in.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
After landing safely, the aircraft had left the runway and was taxiing to the parking bay with passengers on board when the cargo container was sucked into its right engine.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
Earlier Tuesday, an Ethiopian Airlines cargo aircraft went off the runway while taxiing coming to a standstill in the grass, the airport said in a statement, adding the incident was under investigation.
From Barron's ● Jan. 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
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
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
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
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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