hackney coach

noun

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Recent Examples of hackney coach The diffuse forms of the Berlin Cathedral, Brandenburg Gate, and Leipziger Platz are still unmistakable against a foreground of pedestrians in modern dress, hackney coaches, and other symbols of the Industrial Revolution. — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 1 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hackney coach
  1. coach
  2. droshky
  3. cab
  4. roadster
  5. chariot
  6. diligence
  7. stagecoach
  8. troika
Noun
  • Al-Hilal is keen to offload the player, who is training separately from their main squad and not in coach Simoene Inzaghi's plans.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Gainesville quickly lured Grayson’s coach, Santavious Bryant, a former Gainesville assistant, as Niblett’s replacement.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of coach
Noun
  • Wandering inside, the boy discovers a luxurious apartment, furnished with tapestries and mirrors; outside, a droshky driver invites him for a ride and then abruptly jumps out, leaving him the reins.
    — Ruth Franklin, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
Definition of droshky
Noun
  • Set the scene Hellerup is an affluent seaside suburb, a 10-minute cab ride or 30-minute train ride away from the city center, filled with posh homes with neat gardens.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • They, like so many other performance pickups—including the Shelby F-150 Baja Raptor from last month—have double (or, as they’re sometimes known, extended) cabs.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 July 2026
Definition of cab
Noun
  • In fact, this unassuming little coupe was the one car that sparked the global roadster boom of the early 1990s, when the MX-5’s huge popularity convinced European carmakers to create the Boxster, SLK, TT, Z3, MGF and Barchetta.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The coupe, which was based on the Cobra roadster, was designed and engineered specifically to help Ford beat the Ferrari 250 GTO, the reigning GT car of the time.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 July 2026
Definition of roadster
Noun
  • Its own president has likened the shift to humanoid robots to a giant chariot that cannot be avoided.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Never mind that he was ejected from the chariot along the way; Nero was declared the winner.
    — Vahe Gregorian July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Definition of chariot
Noun
  • Attorneys bill by the hour, which rewards diligence over decisiveness, sometimes long after diligence has stopped adding real value.
    — Bill Koch, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Positive qualities—promptness, diligence, cheerfulness—sped up your ascent through the ranks; negative ones—laziness, dissipation, late mornings—slowed it down.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Definition of diligence
Noun
  • The route was once a path for stagecoaches and mail coaches known as the Great North Road, but by 1983 it had been superseded by the faster M1 motorway.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 June 2026
  • There was a stagecoach on blocks up at this steakhouse.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Definition of stagecoach
Noun
  • Warsh also inherits from Powell an informal decision-making arrangement known as the troika, an informal grouping of the Fed chair, the vice chair and the New York Fed president.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 15 June 2026
  • So that’s a Celtics pitch that wouldn’t even involve Jaylen Brown (but would leave East teams to contend with a troika of Giannis, Jaylen and Jayson Tatum).
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026
Definition of troika

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