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The items fill seven cartloads, at nearly $100 a cart.—Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025 The items add up to seven cartloads, at nearly $100 a cart.—Erin Clements, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025 The drilling was coming from the massive construction project next door, which eventually gave way to cartloads of rocks and dirt that wheezed out dust that clogged the air-conditioner.—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2025 In one shocking case, in Hillsborough, North Carolina, a man pushing a cartload of power washers out of a Home Depot shoved an eighty-two-year-old employee to the concrete floor without breaking stride.—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 This illustration shows one of Alcuin’s puzzles: A man and woman, each the weight of a cart, and two children who weigh a cartload combined, have to cross a river.—Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023 OpenSea is trapped between a rock and a hard place: Its phenomenal growth has brought it more revenue, partnerships with tech giants like Twitter, and funding, but also a cartload of headaches as the company struggles to keep up with emerging security incidents and endless copycat NFTs.—Gian M. Volpicelli, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022 Ruiz Gutierrez signed a small cross before adding a cartload of pineapple, apples, prunes, cinnamon and bananas to boil with the mezcal and said a blessing in Zapoteco.—Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2021
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