as in carriages
a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers
romantic couples enjoy being driven in the old-fashioned rig through the park
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as in supplies
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
carefully rigged each diver with the required equipment before starting out
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Recent Examples of rigs
Tim Stevens,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
Companies run teleoperation farms where people strap into VR rigs and exoskeletons and pilot robots through the same dull tasks over and over, logging every motion as training data.
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Robert J. Szczerba,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
This year, country music — or at least a few of its leading men — is moving up from fishing rigs and pontoons to the easy listening waters of yacht rock.
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Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
13 June 2026
Instead, it was scattered among the booths of the usual PC DIY suspects, helping builders dream up ever more creative ways to customize, cool, power, and show off their desktop rigs.
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John Burek,
PC Magazine,
7 June 2026
Its all-new Paragon might just be the absolute Goldilocks of adventure rigs, bringing together state-of-the-art construction and a market-undercutting pricing structure.
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New Atlas,
4 June 2026
For the anglers, the concession will offer hooks, weights and rigs, and bait.
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
26 May 2026
Instead of semi-trailer rigs spewing air pollutants while idling at the warehouses, data centers pull enormous amounts of electricity, housing computer systems that help train artificial intelligence criteria.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
The company has decided to operate five completion crews for the rest of the year while adding two to three rigs to maintain a sufficient DUC backlog and ensure operational flexibility.
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Tipranks.com Staff,
CNBC,
10 May 2026
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
But, where other big Benz luxury rigs go up or down in the name of ground clearance, the VLE is more about aerodynamics and ease of entry and exit.
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Tim Stevens,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
Companies run teleoperation farms where people strap into VR rigs and exoskeletons and pilot robots through the same dull tasks over and over, logging every motion as training data.
—
Robert J. Szczerba,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
This year, country music — or at least a few of its leading men — is moving up from fishing rigs and pontoons to the easy listening waters of yacht rock.
—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
13 June 2026
Instead, it was scattered among the booths of the usual PC DIY suspects, helping builders dream up ever more creative ways to customize, cool, power, and show off their desktop rigs.
—
John Burek,
PC Magazine,
7 June 2026
Its all-new Paragon might just be the absolute Goldilocks of adventure rigs, bringing together state-of-the-art construction and a market-undercutting pricing structure.
—
New Atlas,
4 June 2026
For the anglers, the concession will offer hooks, weights and rigs, and bait.
—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
26 May 2026
Instead of semi-trailer rigs spewing air pollutants while idling at the warehouses, data centers pull enormous amounts of electricity, housing computer systems that help train artificial intelligence criteria.
—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
The company has decided to operate five completion crews for the rest of the year while adding two to three rigs to maintain a sufficient DUC backlog and ensure operational flexibility.
—
Tipranks.com Staff,
CNBC,
10 May 2026
Verb
There’s infectious joy and wonder as the Eridian who will come to be known as Rocky begins communicating with Ryland, at first with rudimentary signals and then with more complex language once Ryland rigs a translation device.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigs
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The horse, named Sampson, is stabled and said to be doing OK, but is unlikely to return to pulling carriages.
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Members of the monarchy wave from carriages, aristocrats don faintly cartoonish top hats and extravagant millinery threatens to obscure the view at every turn.
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Ukraine's state security service said Saturday morning that Ukrainian forces also struck an oil pumping facility in Russia’s Vladimir region that supplies fuel to Moscow, for the second time this month.
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Under a country club contract signed in 1988, the district supplies the club with reclaimed water from its sewage plant to irrigate its two golf courses, the report said.
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The sound will now play only from the operating and trailing cabs, with speaker modifications expected between late July and mid-August.
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This year’s design is a soft, baby blue gown — paying homage to the color of the island’s original 1895 flag— embroidered with subtle motifs, including yellow taxi cabs, the Brooklyn bridge and the Puerto Rico’s national flower, the flor de maga.
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AerAware departs from traditional head-up displays and instead equips both pilots with a dual wearable system that delivers the same information to each cockpit seat.
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Whether your 9-to-5 job involves a rare combination of manual record keeping and precarious wilderness travel, or your idea of outdoor recreation includes journaling your day while remaining at the ready for whatever nature hurls at you, the all-new Pen-metheus equips you for it all.
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Suddenly, the servant saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around them – representing spiritual forces of divine protection.
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Wheels of fire, chariots of fire, what’s that?
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Ahead, revisit Kate Middleton’s best Wimbledon outfits since the princess first graced a match.
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As soon as the concept was solidified, French began thinking of different ways to translate the polka-dot print on the cover stars’ outfits into a makeup look.
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The agency furnishes those six apartments and provides dishes and other essentials.
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The identification of that fake photo now furnishes an alibi for those who want to deny the real bombing.
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For example, the female carpenter bee provisions her nest with nectar and pollen, lays the eggs, and then the eggs hatch in late summer to fall.
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Inside, the wasp provisions its offspring with paralyzed spiders or insects.
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“Rigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigs. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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