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Recent Examples of rockaway
The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage.
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Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rockaway
Noun
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When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2024
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The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.—
Tim Ebner,
Washington Post,
10 July 2024
Noun
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Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.—
Simon Webster,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2023
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Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.—
Danny McDonald,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 July 2018
Noun
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While Tensley is best known for Rhône varieties like syrah and grenache, his entry-level cab delivers impressive value, offering glimpses of the purity of fruit and intensity that define his more powerful flagship bottlings.—
Anna Lee Iijima,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Apr. 2025
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How does your partner treat those around them: the waiter at the restaurant, the cab driver and perhaps even your friends?—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.—
Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
30 May 2024
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Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdown, joined Charles and Camilla in their landau, while her daughter Lady Sarah Chatto traveled in the third carriage with her husband, Daniel.—
Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
22 June 2023
Noun
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Read Next World ‘Rare’ ancient chariot wheel found at golf course in Scotland.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
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One of the last chariot discoveries in Scotland occurred 24 years ago at Newbridge in Edinburgh.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Save on patio essentials like Sunbrella chaises and Adirondack chairs, as well as indoor pieces like end tables, coffee tables, and throw pillows.—
Ali Faccenda,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The low-profile form and rounded edges of this chaise sofa feels laidback but still luxurious.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Lonnie Yoder, 84, was killed when his Amish buggy flipped due to intense winds in Middlebury, Ind. shortly before 6 p.m. local time on Sunday.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Another person died after strong winds knocked over an Amish buggy carrying a family of four in Middlebury, Indiana – about 70 miles east of Valparaiso – Sunday, an Elkhart County dispatcher told CNN.—
Matthew Rehbein,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 May 2022
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The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.—
Doug MacCash,
NOLA.com,
17 Sep. 2017
Cite this Entry
“Rockaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rockaway. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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