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Recent Examples of tow
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
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Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
These include a slightly less powerful electric motor for the rear wheels—now 181 hp (135 kW) instead of 201 hp (150 kW), but a tow rating that’s been doubled to 2,000 lbs (907 kg).
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
17 June 2026
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Verb
Later pictures showed the structure being towed within the lagoon.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
25 June 2026
Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
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Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Noun
The Tesla in which she was discovered had been impounded in a Los Angeles tow yard.
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Liza Esquibias,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
These include a slightly less powerful electric motor for the rear wheels—now 181 hp (135 kW) instead of 201 hp (150 kW), but a tow rating that’s been doubled to 2,000 lbs (907 kg).
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tow
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But Roberts finds moments to pull players aside for one-on-one conversations.
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Rescuers have fanned out across La Guaira, where the worst destruction occurred, and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors and victims from the rubble.
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If all goes well, Katalyst's space tug (it's called Link) will lift the Swift observatory into a higher, safer orbit — one that will add years of life to the aging space telescope's mission.
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The clash between the two dynamics — one extolling beauty, the other detailing gruesome crimes — makes for an oil-vinegar mix that speaks to the tug of war women experience between using the beauty versus their brains.
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Elsewhere, drivers encountered a very different kind of mess when a tractor-trailer hauling 40,000 pounds of extra-firm tofu crashed off a highway into a ravine in Missouri in March, The New York Times reported.
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Down Pennsylvania Avenue, a man in a karate gi, disposable gloves, and dirty white sneakers was hauling a cart by means of a homemade yoke strapped across his shoulders.
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And with pitching continually improving, maybe the league has made a concerted effort to level the playing field with a lower-drag baseball.
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Deadline exclusively reported the addition of Chad Rook as Mac, a drag racer, in season 3.
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Public opposition has thrown a wrench into the AI industry’s sweeping data center construction plans.
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Yeah, that’s the one thing that really throws a wrench into the Guest 2 theory.
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After Iran played to a draw Sunday at SoFi Stadium, its second of the World Cup in as many matches, the team’s coach began his postmatch assessment by backing up six months.
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The teen, who attended Monday’s 2-2 draw with New Zealand and has a ticket for Sunday’s match against Belgium, is one of several fans from Los Angeles who made the drive to stay with the team.
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This Jamaican restaurant, located just off Main Street, brings Caribbean flavors to Mackinac Island’s solid rotation of restaurants, with planked whitefish and jerk chicken sandwiches.
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After Game 4, jerks were throwing things at Victor Wembanyama.
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“Tow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tow. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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