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a vehicle with two handles, a large bowl, and usually one wheel that is used for carrying heavy loads of dirt, rocks, etc.
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Recent Examples of wheelbarrow
Still, consider packing light or using one of the on-site wheelbarrows to lug your camping supplies up the fairly steep quarter-mile or so to where the campsites are spread.
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Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
After Mother Ezumi read off their names, the Sisters in the pine sap detail were sent on their way to load a wheelbarrow up with tapping implements and buckets, collect their student charges, and march off to Mitsuyama.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Baseball hats were propped inside crates next to a wheelbarrow, and inside the historic Mulford Barn, guests were busy stuffing Ralph Lauren Hamptons tote bags with picture-perfect produce and wildflower bouquets, courtesy of Amber Wave Farm.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2025
Highlights are karaoke contest, grapefruit bowling, wheelbarrow races, flapjack toss contest.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2025
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Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
After Mother Ezumi read off their names, the Sisters in the pine sap detail were sent on their way to load a wheelbarrow up with tapping implements and buckets, collect their student charges, and march off to Mitsuyama.
—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
Baseball hats were propped inside crates next to a wheelbarrow, and inside the historic Mulford Barn, guests were busy stuffing Ralph Lauren Hamptons tote bags with picture-perfect produce and wildflower bouquets, courtesy of Amber Wave Farm.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2025
Highlights are karaoke contest, grapefruit bowling, wheelbarrow races, flapjack toss contest.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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The two initially sold coffee out of a pushcart by the railroad tracks in downtown Grants Pass.—
Carl Weiser,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
1 Sep. 2025
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Dutch Bros started as a pushcart coffee operation in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992, according to the company’s website.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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Their bodies were found with plastic bags over their heads and evidence that their hands had been zip-tied near their father's truck, court documents obtained by USA TODAY showed.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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The ferry takes four hours to cross the lake, a 60-mile cruise, that takes passengers, autos, RVs, tour buses, motorcycles, bicycles, and commercial trucks across Lake Michigan between Ludington and Manitowoc.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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According to Williams, the pair had taken a wrong path near a tram that transports passengers between the downtown area where a docking area for cruise ship's is located and a site on the mountainside that is popular with tourists.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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An American tourist was reportedly stabbed in the face by a Syrian asylum seeker in Germany while protecting two women being harassed on a tram.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Maybe the Packers are a wagon — Green Bay's defense was excellent, and Micah Parsons only played limited snaps on Sunday — but Goff holding onto the ball for that long isn't inspiring a lot of confidence going forward.—
Austin Mock,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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But by mid-2020, the commissioner appeared to have fallen off the wagon, according to political insiders around him.—
Joey Flechas,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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During the holidays, Leader pulls a cart filled with candy and gifts to give to staff, patients and families at the Naval hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, to spread cheer.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This slim and tall metal cart has three shelves and can slip into tiny spaces, such as bathroom corners and closets.—
Shea Simmons,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Dutro specializes in fabricating equipment like hand trucks, carts and dollies, so a vehicular trailer in the hot overland adventure market is a natural extension of its talents.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Apr. 2025
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Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.—
Andrew Ford,
USA TODAY,
11 Sep. 2024
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“Wheelbarrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheelbarrow. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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