HAULED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

hauled

verb

past tense of haul

as in pulled

to cause to follow by applying steady force on a pair of strong oxen hauled the plow

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as in carried

to support and take from one place to another a vast army of trucks haul produce across America every day

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Recent Examples of hauled For one, the garage side-door was hauled into court to show the jury. — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 Few medications have been sued, petitioned against, and unnecessarily hauled before Congress as often as this one has. — Julie F. Kay, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026 The contents were hauled to a local landfill and soon were buried under thousands of tons of garbage. — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Several Panthers players made their biggest plays of the young season so far, including wide receiver Xavier Legette, who got open on a deep ball and hauled it in for a 55-yard catch. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 20 Sep. 2026 The branches and logs are then ground up and hauled out of town. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 After crash landing on the dark world directly onto the homing beacon, EO and his crazy crew are apprehended by a gang of warrior henchmen and hauled into the throne room to face the wicked alien ruler who is imprisoned in anger and hate. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The Yukon then struck a trailer being hauled by a 2026 Peterbilt semi-truck that was also traveling west on the interstate. — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026 Occasionally something is hauled up in a plastic bucket, but Willett never cares to look. — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

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Berkeley police said the long object Shrine pulled from his pocket while following Winograd into her apartment building was believed to be a barbecue lighter.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Saints follows Lali, a drifter and a thief, who is pulled back to Barcelona to face and care for her estranged mother Gloria.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of pulled

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If the team succeeds, the result could transform a technology normally associated with large laboratory instruments into a compact quantum sensor that can be carried where the threat actually is.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
The proposal laid out concrete details aimed at restoring traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which carried about a fifth of global oil and gas shipments before the war, reviving fragile hopes for a diplomatic off-ramp to the seven-month war.

— Sam Meredith,Anniek Bao, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of carried

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Graham also dragged a shimmery charcoal hue from her outer corner to her inner corner to accent her bottom line.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
Grossman said that as the Iran war dragged on, Washington started to divert weapons and munitions from the Asia-Pacific region to sustain the war against Tehran.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dragged

Verb

The boat was removed from the Santa Rosa Island beach by a towing company and transported to Ventura Harbor, the service said.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The prevalence of water-bearing minerals in the Bennu sample also suggests that water-ice that sublimated into vapor just inside the snow line was also part of the material that was transported into the region where Bennu and its cousins were built.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of transported

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The defunct Amtrak line, which ran more than 2,600 miles between Seattle and Chicago, ferried passengers to stops in Boise, Pocatello and Salt Lake City, winding along tracks that still carve through Idaho’s Snake River Plain today.

— Rose Evans September 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026
The Pilot once ferried maritime pilots to larger ships in Boston Harbor.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of ferried

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Miller later sent Harding into halftime with its seven-point lead after scoring on a 1-yard run with 18 seconds remaining in the second quarter.

— Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
Skubal’s outing Friday sent him into the first-round bye on a high note.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

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