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 At the time, a bill to ban carriages was before the City Council, but these tragedies bolstered its political momentum. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026 Cars mix with horse-and-buggy carriages on the road, many coming and going from the weekly Sale Day — a market spread over 10 acres with livestock, fruits and vegetables, flowers and other goods for available to purchase. — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 The overnight jaunt begins at Paris Gare d’Austerlitz station, where guests board the historic midnight-blue carriages from the 1920s and ‘30s. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2026 Separated into two areas, the first is the mellow bar (for pre and post-spa cocktails, mocktails, and detox juices) and four quirky pink manicure pods that look like disjointed train carriages. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026 The drone strike targeted a railway station in the Novovodolazka community and sparked a fire in two carriages of the suburban train. — Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 French rail manufacturer Alstom also won a $580 million contract to provide metro carriages for Riyadh. — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Three carriages overturned, seriously injuring two people and causing minor injuries for 18 others. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 The kids enjoyed jaywalking, but having to dodge bicyclists and horse carriages. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Its influence eventually spread far beyond carts and chariots.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
The 5,398 officially noted burial objects included ceremonial figurines, chariots, pieces of jewelry and artwork, and even piles of food.

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of chariots

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There are glistening construction workers and disembodied skirts blowing upwards from the convected wind of subway grates and cabs again, a heat-wave dream loop.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2026
Rival taxi service Zoox faced a probe three years ago after self-certifying its own steering-wheel-free cabs.

— Bernard Condon, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of cabs

Noun

Mogwai, who would make their debut the year after Beat was released and with whom Bowery Electric would share a bill, would crouch in similarly unassuming and tense postures and use them to spring out and scare the bejeezus out of people.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Alice and Gemma really don’t seem to get along, and neither seems inclined to back down from their hostile postures.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of postures

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There were online comments galore about Paul Thomas Anderson and Benny Safdie sightings at Cameron Winter‘s show at Carnegie Hall last December, and how both of these name-brand auteurs were running around with Panavision rigs on their shoulders.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
This aligns the frame timing directly with professional broadcast switchers, genlock generators, and virtual production camera rigs, which is incredibly valuable if you are involved in live video production or broadcasting.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of rigs

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But coming off the back of that, there was all of this legislation that was pretty awful and generally, there were a lot of homophobic attitudes, still quite extreme, even as late as the 1990s.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026
The table below shows how Harris voters weighed in on the four attitudes in August 2024 and June 2026.

— Thomas Shull, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of attitudes

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