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Recent Examples of barrow
Near the town of Sanquhar, a southwestern Scottish community nestled in verdant countryside, researchers stumbled upon a Bronze Age barrow—the first find of its kind in the area.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The ancient long barrow, located at the border of the villages Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s eastern Bohemia region, measures roughly 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its largest point.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2024
Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
One recent night under a freezing drizzle, a man named Zarlialai, 40, leaned against his rusty barrow.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023
They were buried in a prominent position marked by small barrow mounds (ancient burial places covered with a large mound of earth and stones).
—Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The ancient long barrow, located at the border of the villages Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s eastern Bohemia region, measures roughly 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its largest point.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2024
Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
One recent night under a freezing drizzle, a man named Zarlialai, 40, leaned against his rusty barrow.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023
They were buried in a prominent position marked by small barrow mounds (ancient burial places covered with a large mound of earth and stones).
—Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrow
Noun
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As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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But feel free to award Beltrán a giant wheelbarrow full of them.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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Beyond them, the concrete of the 21st century falls away, replaced by creamy pillars and marble paving stretching into the distance, with green hills beyond.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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At the bottom of the hill, where there will eventually be a parking lot for visitors, Goldsworthy showed us a derelict building made from pinkish sandstone.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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The family’s history in the apparel industry started in 1910 when Samuel Spiegel and his brother Harry began selling neckwear from a pushcart on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
5 Feb. 2026
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At some point, Elliott began filming the encounter and apparently grabbed a gun from his pushcart.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
4 Dec. 2025
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Some are surrounded by miniature fields, identifiable by alignments of boulders or cairns that were heaped up when the land was cleared of stones.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Park Service recommends that people not disturb, knock down or add to cairns, though some parks caution visitors not to rely on them as official pathways.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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Just in time for Presidents Day, the outlet is offering an extra 20% and then an additional 10% off select items, automatically applied in your cart.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Feb. 2026
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Similarly, Bad Bunny also stopped at a piraguas cart recreation and briefly grabbed a frozen dessert.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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He was jailed in Nevada City, the seat of Nevada County about an hour’s drive from Truckee on the other side of a 7,000-foot mountain pass.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
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The event was put on hold for several minutes as medical professionals tended to Vonn and waited for a helicopter to carry her off the mountain.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Rossi, an Italian sporting icon, was spotted in a video driving an old tram.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
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The city’s statement notes that bicycle parking in Balboa Park remains free, and that those who choose to arrive by car can take a free tram to the center of the park from Lower Inspiration Point, where vehicle parking is free for three hours.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Darnold’s already shown maximum resolve by scrambling his way off the ash heap of underachievement history, where the likes of Zach Wilson, Josh Rosen and Johnny Manziel all reside.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Barrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrow. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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