hauled

past tense of haul
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as in pulled
to cause to follow by applying steady force on a pair of strong oxen hauled the plow

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Recent Examples of hauled Occasionally something is hauled up in a plastic bucket, but Willett never cares to look. Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 The slide was later pulled off of the plane and hauled away on the back of a pick-up truck before the plane took off for Dallas. Isabella Murray, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 Video shared by Nepal's authorities showed the moment a man was hauled from a tunnel. Victoria Craw, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2026 According to the Grand Canyon Historical Society, the animal gave children rides and hauled water to a North Ridge summer camp in exchange for pancakes. Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026 The Guinness had been destined for pubs, but was snatched Monday night by two drivers who pulled up to an industrial park in Runcorn and hauled away the trailers containing about 800 barrels of stout. Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 That company, Davis Waste Removal, hauled trash in the city for more than 35 years and negotiated the 2015 contract that Recology Davis took over. Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026 More than 200 walruses were hauled out on the beach, grunting and groaning, wriggling and jostling for position. Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Yet no one hauled him before Congress to answer for stoking racial tensions, snubbing George Washington, or making America sad on her birthday. Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2026
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  • The disbelief at billowing black smoke from a gash in the Pentagon and collapsing skyscrapers of steel, the dread over what attacks might yet come, the hope that people might be pulled from the rubble alive.
    Ann Gerhart, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026
  • In his absence, the documentarian created a digital avatar of the Tesla CEO and used statements pulled from decades’ worth of the entrepreneur’s interviews and public appearances.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
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  • Each session creates another set of parts that must be stored, carried, disassembled, and cleaned.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
  • At a nearby Sheraton hotel, the hurricane carried several cars across the parking lot and destroyed the hotel’s oceanfront restaurant.
    Liz Kreutz, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • While hunting for his missing wife, Marissa, Hale is dragged through an escalating nightmare of environments that loop, warp and rebuild themselves from his own memories and trauma.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • At that point, six men dressed in black and wearing masks emerged from their vehicles, dragged the Chetals from their car and led them to the van, where Chetal’s father was beaten with a metal baseball bat, breaking his arm.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026
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  • United fans may well feel transported back to their more recent Europa League endeavours when Michael Carrick’s side walk out the Old Trafford tunnel on Thursday.
    Leon Imber, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • According to a January 2018 press release from the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office, the remains were transported to the medical examiner’s office for autopsy, examination and positive identification.
    Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026
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  • The Pilot once ferried maritime pilots to larger ships in Boston Harbor.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Madilynn Becker, Miss Kansas While Madilynn Becker has long since given up most of her rituals and superstitions, there was one that ferried her through her young pageant career.
    Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • That outlay has brought Marc Cucurella, Robert Sanchez, Moises Caicedo and Joao Pedro to Stamford Bridge, while their latest arrival from the south-coast side, centre-forward Danny Welbeck, was secured for a much more modest £5m this summer.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Pritzker believes the city and state have learned to respond to the tactics that Bovino and his men brought, and those that continue.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
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  • Previously, teenagers had to be sent back to their CHL teams and weren’t eligible for that kind of assignment.
    Chris Johnston, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • While the funeral arrangements were formally made by Mladic's family, the Serbian government also sent a plane last week to bring his remains to Belgrade, and soldiers carried his coffin wrapped in the national flag.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026

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“Hauled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hauled. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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