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Recent Examples of barrow
The ancient long barrow, located at the border of the villages Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s eastern Bohemia region, measures roughly 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its largest point.
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Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2024
Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
One recent night under a freezing drizzle, a man named Zarlialai, 40, leaned against his rusty barrow.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023
They were buried in a prominent position marked by small barrow mounds (ancient burial places covered with a large mound of earth and stones).
—Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
The 56-year-old was taken to hospital in a wheel barrow and was hospitalized for ten days.
—CNN, 12 May 2022
Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2024
Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
One recent night under a freezing drizzle, a man named Zarlialai, 40, leaned against his rusty barrow.
—Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2023
They were buried in a prominent position marked by small barrow mounds (ancient burial places covered with a large mound of earth and stones).
—Duncan Sayer, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2022
The 56-year-old was taken to hospital in a wheel barrow and was hospitalized for ten days.
—CNN, 12 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrow
Noun
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What better way to welcome guests this fall than with a wheelbarrow filled with pumpkins and gourds?—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Oct. 2025
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Several customers were busy filling the available wheelbarrows with their choices.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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Eventually, Anaver's home came to a stop after colliding with a small hill that had a board sticking out of it a few feet away from the river, according to the AP.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The two initially sold coffee out of a pushcart by the railroad tracks in downtown Grants Pass.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Sep. 2025
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Dutch Bros started in 1992 by brothers Dane and Travis Boersma as a pushcart by the railroad tracks in downtown Grants Pass, Ore.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Stone cairns, serpentine walls, earthen mounds, balance rocks, ancient spring wells, and interesting stone enclosures have been identified as potential early cultural evidence of pre-European native use.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2025
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The way forward is often indiscernible, with trail markers like signs, cairns, and ribbons, few and far between.—
Olivia James,
Outside Online,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Trucks would lift the carts using hydraulics, lessening the labor required by employees to load debris into trucks.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Lasko Oscillating Ceramic Space Heater, $47 in cart The oscillating feature on this Lasko heater helps disperse warmth evenly throughout small- or medium-sized rooms.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The model suggested that ice from Antarctica alone — before any additions from Greenland, mountain glaciers or thermal expansion — could raise the seas by more than a meter by 2100.—
Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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The director continues to drum up the suspense when, after a Hollywood-style car chase that’s perfectly executed, the clan arrives at Iman’s childhood home in the mountains, where things definitely take a turn into thriller territory and several guns come back into play.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Guests can take a tram tour of the park, one of the largest sites in the World Birding Center network, or attend one of the many ranger programs about the nature and history of the area.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
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Singapore Packed with adventure, Sentosa Island has long been the locals’ quick getaway from the city, accessible by car, bus, or aerial tram.—
Elizabeth See,
AFAR Media,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Based on the Stephen King short story, Osgood Perkins' gloriously demented and surprisingly thoughtful horror comedy features Theo James as twins who can't escape a monkey toy that brings a whole heap of bloody death.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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In the trailer, it is shown that if you are caught indulging in a brief moment of pleasure, you are packed away into a human-sized cardboard box and quickly discarded into a heap of other passionate offenders.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Barrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrow. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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