as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
the big man barged into the room
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Recent Examples of barge
Kayti Burt, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
After managing to escape him, Dreux and Alyssa then found refuge in their now-empty apartment, until King Lolo barged in during Keshawn's apology speech and tried to kill them.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Others were structures not intended for residential use but which had been cleverly repurposed, such as an industrial barge turned houseboat in Paris.
—Amy Astley, Architectural Digest, 18 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Then, when the two are about to sleep together, Beom-jun barges in, posing as Yu-jeong’s boyfriend.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
After managing to escape him, Dreux and Alyssa then found refuge in their now-empty apartment, until King Lolo barged in during Keshawn's apology speech and tried to kill them.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
From there, they would be moved by barge again to the launch site in Florida.
—Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Others were structures not intended for residential use but which had been cleverly repurposed, such as an industrial barge turned houseboat in Paris.
—Amy Astley, Architectural Digest, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barge
Verb
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Then, around 200 million years ago, Pangaea began splitting apart, a geological breakup that formed the Atlantic Ocean, and eastern North America shuffled toward its current position on the globe.—
Alexandra Witze,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Apr. 2025
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The Phillies can shuffle their rotation with the benefit of two upcoming off days.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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Satellite images reveal additional deployments, including KC-135 refueling tankers.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
Verb
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And in the end, the untouched bread is stomped into the ground.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Balor stomped Mysterio, seemingly signaling a forthcoming break-up of the two longtime partners.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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How did the world’s two largest economies stumble toward a trade war that neither truly seeks and which the rest of the world can’t afford?—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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Eleni wasn't the only one who stumbled across the sale.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The companies had ordered hundreds of new freighters when flush with cash from the boom in global trade during the pandemic.—
Peter Eavis,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The ever-popular HydraFacial uses non-invasive LED light therapy to brighten your skin; while the Southern Ceremony Citrus scrub sloughs dead skin cells with its namesake ingredient.—
Kate Donnelly,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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These peels work by literally sloughing off the pigmented cells.—
Deanna Pai,
Glamour,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Portable steamers and irons are bulky and require an outlet, time, and patience.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Apr. 2025
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This professional garment steamer with foot pedal power control from Macy's is powerful and is ready to steam fast.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Barge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barge. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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