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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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Recent Examples of carriages
Chinnawong added that those who were killed were in two of the three carriages struck by the crane.
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Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 14 Jan. 2026
The company’s comfortable carriages now link some of the state’s most in-demand cities, beaches, theme parks, and cruise ports with a speed and polish more commonly associated with Europe or Japan.
—Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
The law would've phased out the industry by stopping new licenses from being issued and replacing the carriages with electric alternatives.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
Around 1608, horse- and oxen-drawn carriages traveled into the territory to build a new capital, which the Spanish called Santa Fe.
—Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
The summer visit by the French couple was met with clear skies and beautiful sunshine, and the first view of carriages containing heads of state and Prince William and Princess Kate helping host the visitors came in streets under the castle walls.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
A couple dozen of the property’s 127 guest rooms are situated within Pullman train carriages dating from the 1920s to the 1960s; all of which are parked at a one-time train station that’s now a destination full of restaurants, shopping, and events.
—Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
Gay men of New York, watch out for stray carriages on the street.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Associated with a group that included Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy, Jean Follain was struck by a car and killed just after midnight in Paris in 1971, a brutal irony considering how many of his poems are rutted by farm carts and horse carriages and apple wagons.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 14 Jan. 2026
The company’s comfortable carriages now link some of the state’s most in-demand cities, beaches, theme parks, and cruise ports with a speed and polish more commonly associated with Europe or Japan.
—Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
The law would've phased out the industry by stopping new licenses from being issued and replacing the carriages with electric alternatives.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
Around 1608, horse- and oxen-drawn carriages traveled into the territory to build a new capital, which the Spanish called Santa Fe.
—Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
The summer visit by the French couple was met with clear skies and beautiful sunshine, and the first view of carriages containing heads of state and Prince William and Princess Kate helping host the visitors came in streets under the castle walls.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
A couple dozen of the property’s 127 guest rooms are situated within Pullman train carriages dating from the 1920s to the 1960s; all of which are parked at a one-time train station that’s now a destination full of restaurants, shopping, and events.
—Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
Gay men of New York, watch out for stray carriages on the street.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Associated with a group that included Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy, Jean Follain was struck by a car and killed just after midnight in Paris in 1971, a brutal irony considering how many of his poems are rutted by farm carts and horse carriages and apple wagons.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carriages
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Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.—
Anshul Gupta,
New York Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Landlord efforts to dangle concessions in front of prospective tenants have helped to shove effective rents lower due to the aggressive stances of property owners that hunger for leasing deals.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Tents, chariots and other production gear were auctioned off so the couple could pay their creditors.—
Kristina Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Dec. 2025
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Hannah and his team also built chariots specific to each Camp Half-Blood cabin, with a trident adorning Percy and Tyson’s (Daniel Diemer) for the Poseidon cabin and a steampunk version for the Hephaestus cabin, among others.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Dec. 2025
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And that’s also a place where those familiar postures — the brooding cowboy, the angsty writer — start to dissolve.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
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Sachs films the pair in a variety of places and postures—sitting face to face in her living room, standing in the kitchen, lying down on her bed.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
5 Nov. 2025
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Design details inspired by yellow taxi cabs, subway lights, and the building’s Beaux-Arts history celebrate this bustling neighborhood that—just like W Hotels—is always evolving.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Dec. 2025
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Living in an expensive city, surrounded by colleagues who billed a hundred hours a week and ordered cabs home at midnight, McCoy was always the poorest man in the room.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The book also shines a prominent light on how attitudes toward certain drugs have changed over time by showing when and where they were embraced.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
12 Jan. 2026
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However, the recent flood of Gen Z workers into the education non-profit could reflect broader attitudes towards work and an uncertain labor market.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
12 Jan. 2026
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The new product enters a crowded market for towable camera rigs, which have proliferated outside big box stores, strip malls and construction sites since the pandemic.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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The annual Dakar Rally may be best known for the sandstorming, badlands-bashing trucks, buggies and motorcycles that compete within its map boundaries, but the event has also inspired some radical on- and off-road support rigs and RVs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Carriages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carriages. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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