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as in instrumentality
something used to achieve an end
used organized protests as a vehicle for change
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as in transportation
something used to carry goods or passengers
bought a larger vehicle after they had a third baby
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Recent Examples of vehicle
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Tesla — The electric vehicle maker’s stock jumped more than 4% after Business Insider reported that Tesla’s robotaxi service will debut in San Francisco as soon as this weekend.
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Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 July 2025
Motorcyclists should know their gross vehicle weight rating and remember, luggage counts as weight.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Police added that the vehicle was last captured on a traffic camera at around 8 p.m. local time in Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 July 2025
Picture Florida in 2045: with 26 million residents, millions of electric vehicles, and data centers powering the digital economy.
—Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
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Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 25 July 2025
Motorcyclists should know their gross vehicle weight rating and remember, luggage counts as weight.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Police added that the vehicle was last captured on a traffic camera at around 8 p.m. local time in Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 July 2025
Picture Florida in 2045: with 26 million residents, millions of electric vehicles, and data centers powering the digital economy.
—Mark McNees, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vehicle
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They are left wielding the tools of instrumentality: in-groups and cliques, buying effort through more money, coercive employment agreements and suits against whistleblowers.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Holding the weight of cotton’s influence on the world, and thus the instrumentality of Black labor, is painful, yet necessary work.—
Cierra Black,
Essence,
9 July 2025
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Centuries ago, the Maya cut a slender channel through dense mangrove forests to facilitate transportation between two technicolor lagoons.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
19 July 2025
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Other industries have modernized their supply chain practices and B2B integration strategies in the last few years, especially in the manufacturing, logistics, transportation and retail spaces.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
18 July 2025
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Some instruments were not in their standard positions, and these were not buttons that could be jostled out of place by an explosion: They were made to be handled by human fingers, which is apparently what happened after the blast.—
Alice George,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2025
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So Goodloe plugged in a Gibson 335, an instrument associated with Chuck Berry.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
16 July 2025
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Programs utilizing these modes have the potential to reduce transport emissions 33.5% in Germany, 22.8% in Sweden, and 24% in the UK, the report cited.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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McGuire Moorman Lambert restaurants transport diners the way few other places can, and Sammie's is a prime example of that magic trick.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
15 July 2025
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Record company executives, agents, producers and bookers dominate the panel discussions.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
23 July 2025
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Assuming agent fees of 10 per cent plus a four per cent transfer levy, Mbeumo’s signing adds £14.1m to United’s amortisation bill in 2025-26, then £15.0m per season until the end of the 2029-30 season.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
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Cars, car parts and agricultural and construction machinery were among the top goods Americans bought from there.—
Kit Maher,
CNN Money,
23 July 2025
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Now the nominations machinery is restarting, and Trump's most controversial judicial nominee is only one step away from the federal bench.—
July 21,
NPR,
21 July 2025
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In a 1998 essay for The New Yorker, the author Arthur Miller described urbanites’ Depression-era coping mechanisms: People caught the breeze on open-air trolleys, climbed onto the back of ice trucks, and flocked to the beach.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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Replace people with mechanisms to drive labor costs down and profits up.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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The discovery of the illness put pressure on the artificial division between psychiatry and neurology—the only two fields of medicine that focus on the same organ.—
Rachel Aviv,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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Placental mammals have a placenta, an organ that develops during gestation and bridges mother and fetus.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
19 July 2025
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“Vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vehicle. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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