1
as in exchange
a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another
in medieval Europe, furs and forest products from the north were sold in truck for luxury products from the south
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as in garbage
discarded or useless material
filled a dozen large garbage bags with all the truck we collected when we cleaned the place out
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Recent Examples of truck
In 2014, Tracy Morgan was nearly killed when a Walmart truck driver, awake for more than 28 hours, slammed into his van.
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Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Ignacio Zapata was the only person in the truck, and he was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2025
He’s also encouraged his father to get a new truck, as Norris is still driving his 2007 GMC Yukon.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 16 June 2025
His pickup truck was discovered, unoccupied, on Monday near a campground west of Leavenworth, Washington.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
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Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Ignacio Zapata was the only person in the truck, and he was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2025
He’s also encouraged his father to get a new truck, as Norris is still driving his 2007 GMC Yukon.
—Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 16 June 2025
His pickup truck was discovered, unoccupied, on Monday near a campground west of Leavenworth, Washington.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truck
Noun
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During the exchange, the rival pulled a gun and fired, striking the victim in the head, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2025
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Details of the negotiations were not released, but reports suggested the discussions largely focused on limiting Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanction relief.—
Caitlin McFall , Greg Wehner , Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
13 June 2025
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With the welcome citywide expansion of organic collection (brown bins) joining with paper (green bins) and metal, glass and plastic (blue bins), the remaining black bag garbage will be made of nonrecyclable items like those same thin plastics that Sims rejects that are used for wrapping or bags.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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Patients may pass tissue and dispose of it in the garbage or toilet.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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Yes, deploying them can help U.S. manufacturers compete against the unfair, subsidized trade practices of other countries.—
Ethan Karp,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Hapag-Lloyd’s move reflects the industry at large, which has sought to add more capacity on the trans-Pacific trade lane to capitalize on shippers’ rush to get cargo space ahead of tariff deadlines in July and August.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
9 June 2025
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The planet-wide dust storms are so fierce that the debris often does not settle for months at a time.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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In Lyme and Old Saybrook, there is little flooding but reports of tremendous amounts of debris flowing into Long Island Sound.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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Users can drag, drop, and rearrange widgets, swap layouts instantly, and use keyboard shortcuts for speed.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Meanwhile, in the UK, SIM swap fraud surged by over 1,000% in 2024.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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Both of their remains are presumed to have been transported to Hawaii’s trash incinerator.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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My trash fee could exceed $2,000 per year — for service that used to cost nothing.—
Steven Cordova,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
Noun
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And there are the old pitfalls of the technology that anyone above a certain age remembers: blurry pages, junk faxes that pile up and faxes getting sent to the wrong number.—
Tamsin Gable,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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In 2018, inspired by this culture of bricolage, curator Danni Friedman and designer Jean Lee gathered a group of designers in Havana for a ten-day workshop, turning them loose in an old shipyard factory filled with clay, concrete mix, scrap metal, and assorted junk.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truck. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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