as in pushcart
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
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes in planters and keep buckets covered or indoors.
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Ryan Brennan
april 30, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes and keep containers under cover.
—Ryan Brennan
april 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
The chapters include wheelbarrow nachos, served in a wheelbarrow, double cheeseburger, butter chicken, Korean BBQ, gnocchi ( in honor of his Italian grandmother), Mardi Gras, seafood, pierogi, mac and cheese, pizza nachos.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
Some people who struggled to walk were brought to the Mass in wheelbarrows pushed by family members.
—ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Ryan Brennan
april 30, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes and keep containers under cover.
—Ryan Brennan
april 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
The chapters include wheelbarrow nachos, served in a wheelbarrow, double cheeseburger, butter chicken, Korean BBQ, gnocchi ( in honor of his Italian grandmother), Mardi Gras, seafood, pierogi, mac and cheese, pizza nachos.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
Some people who struggled to walk were brought to the Mass in wheelbarrows pushed by family members.
—ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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Advertisement Opened in 1936 as the Park Avenue Retail Market, La Marqueta was originally created to bring pushcart vendors under one roof and improve access to fresh food for working-class New Yorkers.—
Nandika Chatterjee,
Time,
21 May 2026
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Stairs aren't an option for Mitchell, who needs a walker or pushcart to get around, and takes the Metra Electric Line twice a week to care for her mother.—
Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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He and other members of the group have been arrested and detained, including one incident in which federal agents were recorded on video appearing to ram his truck.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Begin by attending a professional truck-driving school or CDL training program.—
ByBryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Visitors can watch humpback whales surface offshore, ride a tram above downtown, stand face-to-face with or even on Mendenhall Glacier, a river of ice flowing from the vast Juneau Icefield.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Edinburgh has a brand-new tram system that takes you to all the sights.—
Riza Cruz,
Vogue,
11 May 2026
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During a time when Lane Kiffin once again became the target of fans everywhere, his new AD stepped up and circled the wagons.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Then Emma Cannon embraces the holiday by pulling her son and twins behind her in a wagon.—
Jade Chang,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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The 6-to-1 grocery method — six vegetables, five fruits, four proteins, three starches, two sauces, one fun item — has caught on as a low-effort way to nudge the cart toward what the research keeps recommending.—
Allison Palmer,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
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Why these dollar store kitchen gadgets matter now Not every dollar store gadget belongs in your cart.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
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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.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2025
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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
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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 24 May. 2026.
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