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
My analog gravel bike is great for bikepacking trips, training rides, or a quick pedal to the brewery, but it was never meant for carting cargo or my kid around the city.
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Erica Zazo, Outside, 27 Mar. 2026
But after the show, someone was carting this sandworm puppet off to be put in the Academy Museum.
—Robert Zepeda, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
Erica Zazo, Outside, 27 Mar. 2026
But after the show, someone was carting this sandworm puppet off to be put in the Academy Museum.
—Robert Zepeda, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carting
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Troopers have determined the bus was carrying about 60 seventh and eighth grade students and adult staff members when the engine compartment began to smoke just south of Exit 32.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Heifler was carrying a large bottle of Everclear, a liquor with a high alcohol content level and had other components to make the Molotov cocktails at his home, the complaint said.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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Truckers also often don’t get paid for months after hauling a load.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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The city of Denver is granting ten restaurants up to $3,600 to pay for one year’s worth of compost hauling ahead of a new rule that will require every restaurant in the city to start composting.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Mar. 2026
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Bulk and general cargo made up another 40% (1,339 ships), typically transporting agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat and soybeans, and also coal and iron ore.—
Flavio Macau,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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In addition, unlike some carbon removal strategies that rely on transporting and dispersing large quantities of crushed rock, this method operates entirely on-site.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Carting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carting. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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