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Recent Examples of oxcart
Small-scale looters, sometimes with the help of local military personnel, would remove the works with shovels, chisels, picks and even dynamite before transporting them, often by oxcart, to the Thai border.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
Here, transportation is part of the fun: outings via tuk-tuk, cyclo, and oxcart help break up the usual temple-and-market circuit.
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Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
The resort also offers cooking and mixology classes, bird-watching and night frog walks, coffee and wine tastings, tree planting, and traditional oxcart painting classes.
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Devorah Lev-Tov,
AFAR Media,
26 Aug. 2025
Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed.
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Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
3 Jan. 2025
Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans
The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
19 Mar. 2024
The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets.
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Mary Roach,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
Here, transportation is part of the fun: outings via tuk-tuk, cyclo, and oxcart help break up the usual temple-and-market circuit.
—
Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
The resort also offers cooking and mixology classes, bird-watching and night frog walks, coffee and wine tastings, tree planting, and traditional oxcart painting classes.
—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
AFAR Media,
26 Aug. 2025
Luckily for the pair, a man in an oxcart soon passed.
—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
3 Jan. 2025
Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans
The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
19 Mar. 2024
The geophysicists who’d loaned us the instrument were begging us to bring them back an oxcart and a pair of oxen, says Sheets.
—
Mary Roach,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oxcart
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Mackinac Island Carriage Tours has Percheron and Belgian draft horses for carriage tours and dray services, the tourism bureau explained.
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The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain.
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Subaru’s decision to build the STI on the Impreza’s five-door wagonette body style rather than the sedan is easy to question, but ultimately tough to fault.
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Soon, Prospect was crowded with wagons, streetcars, bicycles and automobiles.
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The overwhelming success of the BMW M wagons will lead the automaker’s performance division to give us a M3 Touring in the Neue Klasse era.
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Don’t wait to add these Black Friday-level deals to your cart before the sale is over this week.
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Cell phone video shows the woman confronting longtime street vendor Arabelia Martinez at her hot dog cart at Figueroa and 7th Streets.
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Leona spoke about her brother Vernon, three years older than her, who was thrown off a spring wagon at age nine, his body bleeding and shattered from the impact.
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“Oxcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oxcart. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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