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Recent Examples of buckboard
Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.
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Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2021
The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for buckboard
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From there, letters were ferried by boat and trotted by stagecoach up to North Carolina, where important correspondence was loaded onto a steam locomotive to Virginia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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As in Radio Flyer, stagecoach, wooden-panel and former Roadmasters.—
Jesus R. Garcia,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Feb. 2026
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If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2023
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After the rise of Christianity, the passages under the Hippodrome, a stadium once used for chariot races and gladiator fights, were repurposed as workshops for dyeing fabric and making pottery.—
Durrie Bouscaren,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2026
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The design, based on an official poster for the Games, depicts the Olympic rings and a golden statue of a muscular man crowned in laurels next to a chariot of horses atop Berlin’s Brandenburg Gates.—
Jackie Hajdenberg,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Feb. 2026
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Barns, open pastures, horses and buggies, and small towns define this stretch of Amish Country, offering a quiet change from the busy cities left behind.—
Abby Price,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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In Churchill, the trash sites have all been bear-proofed (enclosed so the animals can’t graze among the garbage), but not so in Arviat, where Inuit enforcers show up in their buggies to honk loudly and chase the bears away from open-air landfills.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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Like many over-the-road truckers, Thomas works, eats and sleeps in the cab of his gray Mack Anthem.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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That’s understandable, as is not mentioning my awkward late-1960s flirtation with CNB that would end with me working as a cab driver.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay.—
Brenda Yenke,
cleveland.com,
7 Feb. 2018
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Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
13 June 2024
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2022
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For an adult beverage, stick with a chaise by the pool.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes Pearl reads like Gulliver netted by the Lilliputians, tossing in a troubled sleep on the poolside chaise.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Buckboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/buckboard. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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