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When the Tories collapsed, in 1830, and the Whigs had a fresh shot at power, a massive working- and middle-class movement—sending petitions by the cartload to Parliament—made Grey the prime minister.—
Danielle Allen,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2026 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