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as in wagon
a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling a cart piled up with hay

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verb

as in to carry
to support and take from one place to another carted a knapsack filled with books from class to class

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Recent Examples of cart
Noun
The carts sell in stores for $14.99, but some are already popping up on resale sites. Jenny Porter Tilley, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Since then, their roles in factories have grown tremendously, ranging from those able to lift up to 1,250 pounds of inventory to fully autonomous robots that navigate factories with carts of customer orders. Dylan Butts, CNBC, 2 July 2025
Verb
Being carted away in handcuffs by officials in Trump’s Justice Department would probably elevate Newsom to Democratic martyr status. Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025 North Reading capped off an impressive 21-win season by riding the pitching of Ethan Quan to a 10-3 win over Arlington Catholic to cart home the Div. 3 state title. Danny Ventura, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for cart
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Noun
  • Israel can and must be the engine of the crypto industry rather than a trailing wagon.
    Tomer Niv, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Everything from the Conestoga wagon to early computer processing was developed along it.
    James Dodson July 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
Verb
  • This level carries a monthly charge of €14.99 or €149 per year.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 July 2025
  • By comparison, in 2020, Joe Biden carried the same age group by a much wider margin, winning 61 percent to Trump's 36 percent.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • Just think about where your luggage has been; it gets hauled through airports, goes for a ride on a conveyor belt, rolls across dusty parking lots, is stashed into overhead bins, and is often handled by multiple people with no guarantee of clean hands.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 June 2025
  • Those were frugal, pragmatic solutions; every stone that could be reused was another one that didn’t have to be quarried, cut, hauled, and placed.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • The body was transported to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • The man was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman was transported to a hospital in critical condition.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • For the 2025 race, Sweet will fly nine helicopters in and out of the track all day, with each helicopter ferrying five or six people.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Buggies—there are 67 of them available to guests—ferried me up and down the gentle hills, which added a sense of adventure to this green and sprawling place.
    Marcia DeSanctis, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Choose a generously sized picnic blanket with a waterproof backing—ideally one that’s soft, stylish and easy to pack.
    Lanee Lee, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • In the early days of the war, the United States and its G-7 allies crafted sanctions and export controls that were thought to pack a powerful punch but in fact had so many mitigations built in that they were robbed of their full impact.
    Michael Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • His mother worked in pharmaceutical companies, moving them to Kalamazoo, Michigan, which brought him to visit his grandmother and aunt every summer, both of whom had a big influence on Brown’s career.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • In 1971, President Nixon, who had called for repeal two years earlier, convinced Congress to bring the credit back on a temporary basis, but at a 10 percent rate.
    Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cart. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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