as in carrying
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 carting
Intent on payback, Bernadine strips all of his clothing from the closet and begins tossing them into his BMW, power-walking between the closet and the vehicle in just a robe and a negligee, carting each load of belongings in a child’s wagon.
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Niela Orr, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Magnan and a co-worker shot two more bison, also known as buffalo, and quickly field dressed the animals before carting them off for processing into ground beef and cuts of meat for distribution to members of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in northern Montana.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
So that was wonderful and the next minute the woman, waitress, air hostess, was carting grog down to the Warlps who decided to bring out the boomerangs and there was loud singing of love, then of country, then unfettered crying for Yuendumu, all in Warlpiri, and the grog kept flowing.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Freight traffic stopped in the 1990s and was temporarily replaced by tourist trains carting passengers to the Indiana State Fair.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025
And for the drivers themselves, carting cargo on America’s highways has been an engine of class mobility—a flexible vocation offering decent pay without the prerequisite of a college education or the daunting prospect of an office-based 9-to-5.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Most will never go farther off road than carting beer to a rec league softball game, but some owners want more.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Weary of carting your gear through the airport?
—Lara Kramer, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
But the license, while allowing Tesla to begin carting around Austinites for a fee, doesn’t classify the robotaxis as autonomous.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 12 Aug. 2025
Niela Orr, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Magnan and a co-worker shot two more bison, also known as buffalo, and quickly field dressed the animals before carting them off for processing into ground beef and cuts of meat for distribution to members of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in northern Montana.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
So that was wonderful and the next minute the woman, waitress, air hostess, was carting grog down to the Warlps who decided to bring out the boomerangs and there was loud singing of love, then of country, then unfettered crying for Yuendumu, all in Warlpiri, and the grog kept flowing.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Freight traffic stopped in the 1990s and was temporarily replaced by tourist trains carting passengers to the Indiana State Fair.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025
And for the drivers themselves, carting cargo on America’s highways has been an engine of class mobility—a flexible vocation offering decent pay without the prerequisite of a college education or the daunting prospect of an office-based 9-to-5.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Most will never go farther off road than carting beer to a rec league softball game, but some owners want more.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Weary of carting your gear through the airport?
—Lara Kramer, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025
But the license, while allowing Tesla to begin carting around Austinites for a fee, doesn’t classify the robotaxis as autonomous.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carting
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The stars are going to be carrying the Olympic torches.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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The small plane was carrying two crew members and 13 passengers, including Diógenes Quintero, 36, a member of the House of Representatives for Catatumbo, the airline said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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Authorities said a man from Florida was driving a Volvo semi hauling a trailer, and was following behind the southbound Peterbilt at the time of the crash.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Lindsay Trameri spent a good chunk of Thanksgiving weekend hauling fiberglass insulation pads into the attic of her small home in Irvington.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
21 Jan. 2026
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The area is near a military base in neighboring Poland, a NATO member, that serves as a key hub for ferrying Western military supplies to Kyiv.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Trump similarly failed to do so in authorizing deadly strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs that have killed over 100 people.—
Ian Swanson,
The Hill,
3 Jan. 2026
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China has just unveiled the world’s largest car carrier, capable of transporting up to 10,800 vehicles in a single trip, thus marking a massive milestone as the global demand for car shipping continues to rise.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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The agency continued to provide rides to cold-weather shelters during the storm, transporting nearly 700 people since Friday.—
Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Carting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carting. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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