Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the time before automobiles (and other inventions) changed the way people lived in industrialized nations
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Examples
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Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars.
Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin Dave Astor 2011
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Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars.
Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin Dave Astor 2011
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In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, much of the country was making do with Victorian bridges, horse-and-buggy roads, and improvised sanitation.
Job Creation Idea No. 8: Time For A New WPA Dan Froomkin 2010
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Now, in effect, it wants to dominate the horse-and-buggy business.
Getco Takes Floor Against the Tide Jacob Bunge 2011
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In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, much of the country was making do with Victorian bridges, horse-and-buggy roads, and improvised sanitation.
Job Creation Idea No. 8: Time For A New WPA The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
Alona Elkayam: Icon of The Day: MLK Alona Elkayam 2012
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The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
Alona Elkayam: Icon of The Day: MLK Alona Elkayam 2012
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The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
Alona Elkayam: Icon of The Day: MLK Alona Elkayam 2012
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The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
Alona Elkayam: Icon of The Day: MLK Alona Elkayam 2012
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Which is a similar concern the horse-and-buggy industry had when cars were invented.
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