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 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 The animal, fizzing with the inexhaustible energy of a creature bred for hauling chockablock toboggans, was confined to a tiny pen, a mere twenty feet square, behind the neighbor’s trailer. — Literary Hub, 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 Lining the streets alongside entrances to the buildings tucked under North Michigan Avenue this week are movie trailers and trucks hauling equipment for an upcoming film centered around Chicago, its football team, and the winter holiday season. — Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026 Big bluegills fight hard, and hauling them out of sunken trees or thick vegetation on light tackle takes real skill. — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026 The Stellar Kit is aimed at journalists, documentary crews and social video creators who need broadcast-quality sound without hauling a mixing board into the field. — Damion Taylor, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 Djokovic became so frustrated that he was given a code violation warning for smashing a racket, before eventually hauling himself over the line. — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 5 July 2026

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Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, a former right back who played alongside Messi in the 2006 World Cup, solved that problem by moving Messi to right wing, tweaking formations and pulling from a bench superior to England’s.

— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026
By July 11, Taco Bell had begun pulling some ingredients, including lettuce and cilantro, from some Michigan restaurants.

— Mike Snider, USA Today, 19 July 2026

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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

Definition of carrying

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The untethered AUVs hover above the seabed instead of dragging equipment across it, reducing sediment disturbance and limiting ecosystem disruption.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
Centre-back Chadi Riad flicks the outswinging corner across goal, with his team-mates’ runs dragging Haiti’s defence forward.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of dragging

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During the demonstration, the robot autonomously handled repetitive pick-and-place operations, transporting items between workstations while adapting to changing object positions.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
The bulk of expenses in operating a space station will come not from the facility itself, but safely transporting crew and cargo to the facilities.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Definition of transporting

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For many people busy ferrying their kids to camp or embarking on vacations, summer is a time to let their TV backlog swell.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 8 July 2026
With a capacity of 45 passengers, the mésoscaphe, a submarine for shallow to mid-range depths, made more than a thousand dives that summer, ferrying 33,000 ordinary people into the lake’s depths.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026

Definition of ferrying

Verb

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

Definition of tugging

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