HAULING Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

hauling

verb

present participle of haul

as in pulling

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

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as in carrying

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 hauling At the time of his death, Garcia-Sanchez was hauling asbestos-containing materials from the ninth floor to lower levels using a freight elevator, the report said. — Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026 Within that glut of set pieces, throw-ins became crucial, too, with specialists hauling the ball into the box to maximise the chaos. — Mark Carey, New York Times, 21 July 2026 The barge was hauling the debris to Di Lido Island in Miami Beach across the bay. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026 Mixing Small-Batch Recipes Sometimes a whisk isn’t quite enough, but hauling out a bulky mixer and all its attachments feels like overkill. — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 17 July 2026 The company had been hauling them on a motor carrier permit that had been suspended since 2015, according to Slonim’s memo and a California Highway Patrol Accident report obtained by The Bee through a public records request. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026 The Falcon 9's upper stage continued hauling the 21 satellites to LEO. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 July 2026 The rocket, which is capable of hauling 16,000 kilograms into low-Earth orbit, is a commercial variant of the Long March 10A vehicle. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026 Beyond the environmental costs, demolishing and hauling away the remnants of huge buildings is especially expensive in dense cities such as New York. — ABC News, 10 July 2026

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The Moon enters practical Capricorn this morning, pulling attention toward structure, responsibility, and the work that needs real support beneath it.

— Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026
Brent Fannin, 38, was the first activist to discover the FWC was pulling critics’ DAVID records.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026

Definition of pulling

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That was part of his wider goal of sending endless waves of bomb-carrying drones and robots to hit Russian encampments in a bid to sharply reduce Ukraine’s casualties.

— Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Then in April, one of the company’s ships was passing Puerto Rico between two other jobs while carrying an advanced underwater drone with the right sensors to find the plane.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026

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The European Space Agency’s ClearSpace-1, planned for 2029, tackles the harder case by capturing the unprepared, noncooperative Proba-1 satellite and dragging it down to burn up.

— Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
Lebanon's top political leadership criticized Hezbollah for dragging the country into another war, but also condemned Israel for its widespread bombing and ground invasion.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of dragging

Verb

Dynacom and its billionaire owner, George Prokopiou, have been instrumental during the war in ferrying oil out of the Persian Gulf and into larger export tankers — at windfall prices that have at times reached $500,000 per vessel.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 21 July 2026
Flight campaign results Pilots from GE Aerospace and BETA Technologies conducted flight evaluations in the United States before ferrying the aircraft across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 July 2026

Definition of ferrying

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Prying policy specifics from a political candidate often is like tugging a bone from a bulldog.

— George F. Will, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Jude, meanwhile, was shifting from tossing cones to tugging at his ears, afflicted with the same malady that had landed several of the toddlers on the room’s version of the injury list.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026

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