pushcart

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Recent Examples of pushcart The beloved East Coast grocery chain began with two brothers selling produce from a pushcart in 1916; now fourth-gen CEO Colleen Wegman has expanded it beyond 100 locations. Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025 Joan scrambled to dump the pushcart of her possessions into a Coney Island trash can on the beach off the boardwalk way down from her building so her landlord wouldn’t see. Literary Hub, 4 June 2025 Besides, there's something almost poetic about Nick's losing to a food truck, considering the hallowed eatery got its start as a hamburger pushcart that founder Nick Freienstein wheeled around Huntington's town square in 1904. Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 24 Mar. 2025 Like iconic Pacific Northwest coffee brand Starbucks, Dutch Bros also got its start in the uppermost region of the contiguous U.S., founded in 1992 by two brothers and a pushcart in Oregon. Sydney Cella, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pushcart
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushcart
Noun
  • Turn over wheelbarrows and change the water in birdbaths at least twice a week.
    John Tufts, IndyStar, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Some visitors walked around casually, looking at the ground, while others brought wagons and wheelbarrows to haul supplies.
    Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Another video showed large plumes of smoke billowing from the truck as emergency workers tried to extinguish the fire.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing rolling back what's known as the endangerment finding, the basis for rules regulating climate pollution, including from coal and gas-fired power plants, cars and trucks, and methane from the oil and gas industry.
    Julia Simon, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During the holidays, Leader pulls a cart filled with candy and gifts to give to staff, patients and families at the Naval hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, to spread cheer.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This slim and tall metal cart has three shelves and can slip into tiny spaces, such as bathroom corners and closets.
    Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In a statement on Facebook, the Portuguese transport workers’ union announced that the driver of the tram, André Jorge Gonçalves Marques, had died.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • An American tourist was reportedly stabbed in the face by a Syrian asylum seeker in Germany while protecting two women being harassed on a tram.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But by mid-2020, the commissioner appeared to have fallen off the wagon, according to political insiders around him.
    Joey Flechas, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Twenty years later, Volvo revived the V90 wagon for 2017 as a companion to the 2017 Volvo S90 flagship sedan.
    Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dutro specializes in fabricating equipment like hand trucks, carts and dollies, so a vehicular trailer in the hot overland adventure market is a natural extension of its talents.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.
    Andrew Ford, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024

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“Pushcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushcart. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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