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"automobile" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often car (3 letters).
Definitions
travel in an automobile
Word origin
From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.
Used in a sentence
“Meronym: see list of auto parts”
“Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Car or truck, broadly”10 letters
02“Car, more formally”10 letters
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