See Prius on Wiktionary
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The ranch was completely isolated. Our nearest neighbor was a good half hour drive away.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012 May, Paul Ingrassia, “Introduction”, in Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page xviii:", "text": "I drove Priuses in Michigan, Jeeps through Colorado, and pickup trucks around the Texas Hill Country and Midtown Manhattan, feeling right at home in the former and like an alien invader in the latter.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2013 June, Porter Gale, “Give Give Get: Why It’s the Real Networking Secret”, in Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 69:", "text": "The parking lot was a zoo of suburban moms with their Starbucks cups commandeering their Prii (the Toyota-approved plural of Prius) and SUVs into empty spots.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015, M. I. Lastman, “Not so gai”, in Rocky Mountain Locust: Opus II, Quartet: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, part 4 (Caroline), page 104:", "text": "The two Prii that we found were probably the last to be driven.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015 January, Levi Tillemann, “Challenging the Big Green Monster”, in The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part II (Leapfrog), page 151:", "text": "A PR agency had even contacted Toyota to procure five Priuses (or Prii, as Toyota calls them) for the Oscars—allowing environmentally conscious celebrities to eschew their ostentatious limousines for Toyota’s fuel-sipping green machine. […] Car and Driver mocked the display of “pop royalty . . . Meryl Streep, Ted Danson (who made his fortune leading a gang of pathetic boozers in the alcohol-soaked sitcom Cheers), the serially deranged Richard Dreyfuss, and Jeff Goldblum” cavorting around in their Prii.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Laura Dave, chapter 17, in Hello, Sunshine: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, published June 2018, →ISBN, page 93:", "text": "It was more quietly fancy, drawing in the kind of wealthy people who thought they were better than their counterparts because instead of spending money on fancy cars, they spent it on their Priuses and perfectly done cottages filled with shabby chic furnishings.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017, Tim Walker, chapter 16, in Smoke Over Malibu, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, part 2 (The Villain’s Lair), page 133:", "text": "Most of the players grabbed their kitbags and made for their Priuses, but my partner gulped long and deep from a litre of Gatorade and strolled my way, rubbing the sweat from his brow.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Ellipsis of Toyota Prius, a compact/small family liftback (supermini/subcompact sedan until 2003) produced by Toyota." ], "id": "en-Prius-en-noun-axBPdMPX", "links": [ [ "Toyota Prius", "w:Toyota Prius" ], [ "compact", "compact" ], [ "small", "small" ], [ "family", "family" ], [ "liftback", "liftback" ], [ "supermini", "supermini" ], [ "subcompact", "subcompact" ], [ "sedan", "sedan" ], [ "Toyota", "Toyota" ] ], "tags": [ "abbreviation", "alt-of", "ellipsis" ], "wikipedia": [ "Toyota" ] } ], "word": "Prius" }
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