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Keep "taxidriver" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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After choosing a replacement for "taxidriver", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "taxidriver" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
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3 total sentences available.
Then you become the real taxidriver who understands just one sign of the whole sign language – it’s the one that yells I WANNA TAXI! TAXI! STOP! […] A taxidriver like that learns to get to know one gesture only but every form of it: The uppity-mellow lifting of the left arm of little Madison Avenue ladies whose right hand is holding a leash with a choking lap-sized dog; […]
Source: wiktionary
When I was your age, we didn’t have gyms. Or, there were a few. But they were for—boxers, taxidrivers. Men, anyway.
Source: wiktionary
Pickets came and went for the shortest shifts before resuming their work as teachers, taxidrivers or minders of other newspapers’ machinery.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include backseat driver, bus driver, busman, cabby, cabby.
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