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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
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In Velasco, a town in the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, a man was buried in a cardboard box, his body carted on a wheelbarrow to the cemetery because of a lack of both of wooden coffins and fuel.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Cotswolds in the United Kingdom attracts tourists from all over the world for its alluring rolling hills, quaint villages and historic mountains.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Our lovely Skeldale family stands together and suddenly notices the fires burning on other hills all across the countryside.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The family’s history in the apparel industry started in 1910 when Samuel Spiegel and his brother Harry began selling neckwear from a pushcart on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
5 Feb. 2026
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At some point, Elliott began filming the encounter and apparently grabbed a gun from his pushcart.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
4 Dec. 2025
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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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The Park Service recommends that people not disturb, knock down or add to cairns, though some parks caution visitors not to rely on them as official pathways.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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LeWanda and Mark Joseph were not seriously injured by the tree that fell near the Little Red Wagon corn dog cart between the Plaza Point shop and Plaza Inn restaurant.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
18 Feb. 2026
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So that number is starting to sink in and has [me] thinking about the opportunity to be able to play in a cart.—
Chuck Schilken,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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The plane crashed in a very remote part of Emerald Mountain, a mountain with hiking and biking trails just across the Yampa River from Steamboat Springs, Routt County Sheriff Doug Scherar said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Mountain travel was highly discouraged, according to the weather service, with snow reducing visibility, causing major delays and prompting chain controls likely on Interstate 80 and other mountain passes.—
Michael McGough
February 14,
Sacbee.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Check out Sky Adventures Arenal Park, which has several attractions to choose from, including zip line adventures, hanging bridges, and an aerial tram.—
Lauren P. Reyes,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rossi, an Italian sporting icon, was spotted in a video driving an old tram.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Specifically, during a phone call Sullivan had with Eric after the ordeal, which marked a low point for the series as Eric launched into a verbal tirade while cameras captured Sullivan crumpled into a bawling heap.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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The show was already twenty minutes past curtain time when we were ushered over to Sun Ra, who sat in a love seat, pasha-like, a heap of garments before him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Barrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrow. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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