Thesaurus results for CARRIAGES

carriages

noun

plural of carriage

as in stagecoaches

a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers a museum with a large collection of beautiful, old carriages

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as in stances

a general way of holding the body her Ladyship's carriage is upright and regal

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Recent Examples of carriages Horse carriages were the main transportation method in the world. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026 Now the carriages are no longer a necessity but an indulgence aimed at tourists. — Andrea Sachs The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026 But the union says the safety conversation shouldn't end with horse carriages. — Aziza Shuler, CBS News, 24 June 2026 Members of the monarchy wave from carriages, aristocrats don faintly cartoonish top hats and extravagant millinery threatens to obscure the view at every turn. — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 June 2026 Every day horse carriages are operating in the park is a day the safety of New Yorkers is in jeopardy. — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 19 June 2026 Kemp has emphasized that drivers are not supposed to leave their carriages to take photos and in the statement said the union welcomes more oversight. — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 19 June 2026 Since the incident, several city officials — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani — have expressed support in removing horse carriages from the park. — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 18 June 2026

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Noun

But, that could be accomplished with portable palanquins and chariots, Namboothiri said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Suddenly, the servant saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around them – representing spiritual forces of divine protection.

— Liesl Ehmke, Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2026

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However, Matthews, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County reaffirmed their stances have not changed for now.

— DJ Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 16 July 2026
One of the most notable came from Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, an Emirati political scientist viewed as an unofficial spokesman for Abu Dhabi, who often speaks its explicit stances on topics too sensitive for the government to speak on publicly.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026

Definition of stances

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Eventually, like Odysseus, most people started to find their way home, hailing cabs and heading to the subway.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 18 July 2026
As a recent article by Bloomberg points out, riders hopping into driverless cabs from Waymo, Tesla, and Zoox are treating driverless trips as a license to unwind.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 16 July 2026

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This has been evident in the competing agendas of France and Italy in Libya, and in the clashing postures of Turkey and France in Libya and the Sahel.

— Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026
The optimism in markets Monday could still prove premature, as negotiations over the strait and attack postures in the broader region remain fluid.

— Rob Wile, NBC news, 22 June 2026

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As miners switch off rigs, the network's hashrate has slid, and some say the security cost is being waved away.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The more costly and time-consuming methods involve humans wearing teleoperation rigs to directly guide a robot’s physical motions in training or running many experimental trials with robots in labs or other environments.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026

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DeVriese-Sebilla said those attitudes had lasting consequences for Argentine, describing housing segregation as one of the community’s greatest historical challenges.

— Michelle Oliva-Espinosa, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026
One other surprising benefit could be to shift people’s attitudes to climate change, according to recent research.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

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