something used to carry goods or passengers
the covered wagon was the major conveyance that transported settlers and their belongings across the frontier
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Recent Examples of conveyanceUnbeknownst to the jury, Walshe pleaded guilty on the first day of jury selection to the improper conveyance of a body and misleading police – a decision that allowed his attorneys to admit those factors to the panel during the trial.—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 15 Dec. 2025 Brian Walshe, 50, pleaded guilty last month to misleading a police investigation and improper conveyance of a body.—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025 The construction of the Stones of Stenness may have required around fifty thousand hours of labor, as slabs were extracted from quarries several miles away, transported by wooden sleds or some other conveyance, and hauled upright.—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 Walshe pleaded guilty to counts two and three of his three-count indictment, admitting to misleading police officers and unlawful conveyance of a human body.—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conveyance
SpaceX plans to use its Starship system for the task — the largest spacecraft and rocket system ever built, and the vehicle that Musk says is purpose-made for taking people to Mars.
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Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
This shift is so total that Tesla is winding down production of its veteran Model S and Model X vehicles to repurpose its California factory for the mass production of Optimus humanoid robots.