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  • But their cabbie's GPS keeps recalculating, and Jeremy and Sandy complete the map task.

    Who Won The Amazing Race 19? 2011

  • Cindy uses their cabbie's phone to find out The Dump is Mitchell's house, while Jeremy and Sandy get bad directions to go to a furniture store called The Dump.

    Who Won The Amazing Race 19? 2011

  • We knew, or thought we did, that every sex joke in Bernie X's monologues was redeemed by the tonally perfect rendering of the cabbie's patois (I don't think we used the word patois).

    Read This Review or . . . Andrew Ferguson 2010

  • The bill passed Wednesday increases the fine for a cabbie's first offense from $350 to $500.

    City Slams Door on Taxi No-Go's Andrew Grossman 2011

  • Associated Press Mahmoud has his doubts about the truthfulness of the cabbie's story.

    Egypt—The Hangover Bret Stephens 2011

  • I am always happy when a cabbie's "mother town" is a place that has an SOS Children's Village.

    Heather Paul: Inside a Cab: the Goodness of Small Moments 2010

  • Among the London cabbie's fighting circle in Afghanistan we find farmers, teenage madrasa students, local officials, European part-timers, and old timers fighting, they say, "because the foreigners are here"; 30 years before "they were called Russians, but they are the same, all kafirs infidels."

    Scott Atran: NATO's Mission Impossible: Its Effects on the Afghan Partisan Movement and on US Scott Atran 2010

  • Among the London cabbie's fighting circle in Afghanistan we find farmers, teenage madrasa students, local officials, European part-timers, and old timers fighting, they say, "because the foreigners are here"; 30 years before "they were called Russians, but they are the same, all kafirs infidels."

    Scott Atran: NATO's Mission Impossible: Its Effects on the Afghan Partisan Movement and on US Scott Atran 2010

  • In one dream X sits in the back seat staring at the purple turban, trying to read the cabbie's name on the placard but the name is written in a tongue not of this world, and X has just asked some question (he doesn't remember what) and the cabbie in the purple turban has just laughed and turned his head to answer, when X starts awake.

    Hotel Chelsea - Intercut 6 2010

  • I think he wants the satisfaction of outliving people, but then it turns out Holmes's nemesis Moriarty isbehind it all, and for every person killed the cabbie's kids are financially rewarded.

    TV review: Sherlock and Orchestra United 2010

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