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Recent Examples of barrow
Near the town of Sanquhar, a southwestern Scottish community nestled in verdant countryside, researchers stumbled upon a Bronze Age barrow—the first find of its kind in the area.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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.
—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
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrow
Noun
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The storefront, which opened in 1852, supplied early miners with dynamite and Studebaker wheelbarrows.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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That organ was carried in a wheelbarrow to each of the founders’ houses before there was an actual church.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Hippie Tree — a giant eucalyptus perched at the top of a dusty hill — is a quick jaunt from downtown.—
Nora Heston Tarte,
Mercury News,
18 May 2026
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Craving rolling hills, olive groves, and a glass of Chianti at dusk?—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
18 May 2026
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Dutch Bros started as a pushcart coffee operation in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992, according to the company’s website.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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Essex Market on the Lower East Side echoes with the memory of pushcart vendors and immigrant families.—
Christina Stanton,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The next day, the hottest grandparents to ever walk the earth find Fanny at Jane’s cairn.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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Some are surrounded by miniature fields, identifiable by alignments of boulders or cairns that were heaped up when the land was cleared of stones.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Jan. 2026
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In the warmer months, the brewery hosts food carts, live music, and entertainment.—
Anna Laird Barto,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
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Coming in at a whopping $500 fine, parking a boat, motor home, truck camper or vending cart for over 15 days is tied with on-street parking of truck tractors or semitrailers for the highest parking violation fines in the city.—
Kaitlyn McCormick,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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An hour north of New York City, the Hudson Valley has turned into one of the country’s most compelling beer regions with farms, river towns, mountain backdrops, and a concentration of serious breweries that keeps growing.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible Saturday afternoon before a colder storm system brings widespread rain, mountain snow and a major drop in temperatures by Monday.—
Callie Zanandrie,
CBS News,
16 May 2026
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Visitors can watch humpback whales surface offshore, ride a tram above downtown, stand face-to-face with or even on Mendenhall Glacier, a river of ice flowing from the vast Juneau Icefield.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Edinburgh has a brand-new tram system that takes you to all the sights.—
Riza Cruz,
Vogue,
11 May 2026
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Directed by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen, Jim Queen is a crass, profane, giddily stupid romp through a heap of stereotypes about gay life in Paris.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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That is partially a product of the heaps of experience this group has together in these types of moments.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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“Barrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrow. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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