pushcart

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Recent Examples of pushcart Instead of once a month, the city’s pushcart vendors are now only required to change the hot-dog water every other month. John Ficarra, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024 It was passed in 1938 after New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia cracked down on street vendors, banishing forever the pushcarts made famous in photos of the old Lower East Side. Peter Green, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2024 Some go door to door with pushcarts, offering to take or even buy unwanted electronics. Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 Enquirer reports described people stealing pushcarts and running wagons into the canal (where Central Parkway is today). Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pushcart
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushcart
Noun
  • If not for these sales pitches for petunias and potting soil, for daisies, dahlias, and designer wheelbarrows, my menu of messages would tend toward the sensibly gray.
    Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2025
  • That question gnawed at him as a student, first at Hampshire College and later at McGill University, and led him to lead teams of collectors with wheelbarrows and pickup trucks.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Trade-in value for the truck has also been a shock for some owners, after Tesla began accepting trade-ins.
    Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • That footage, shot by a bystander and obtained by ABC 7, shows federal agents in tactical vests and masks smashing the windows of a large white pickup truck before apparently pulling out a man from inside.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • After dark, there’s a Midnight Snack cart delivering warm, comfort-food bites to weary red-eye travelers (because New York never sleeps, and neither do airport people).
    Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 June 2025
  • The cart is being brought out, and the stadium is silent.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • While trams and trolleys have been off Denver streets for 75 years, a piece of their history is key in creating the city’s newest apartment project.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 28 June 2025
  • But nothing in Casablanca’s bustling Mers Sultan quarter, where trams rumble past shoe stores and cafes, looked remotely palatial.
    The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Joe pulls his dusty Subaru wagon up to his secret bionic scrap-part silo and uses a retinal scanner to gain access.
    Stacia Brown, Vulture, 26 June 2025
  • Part of the unit, which is used mostly for community events, is a wagon pulled by two mules.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 22 May 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 5 Jul. 2025.

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