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
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
The annual Dakar Rally may be best known for the sandstorming, badlands-bashing trucks, buggies and motorcycles that compete within its map boundaries, but the event has also inspired some radical on- and off-road support rigs and RVs.
—New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2025
With complex rigs, the filmmaker can record an actor’s movements live and blend the resulting image with digital creations.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025
The company doesn’t sell its high-tech rigs to local municipalities.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Two would involve building and operating drilling rigs on Mars, with one campaign proposing to drill as far down as five kilometers to reach subsurface regions where potentially life-bearing liquid water might exist.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2025
Processing massive volumes of real-time data, such as data from sensors monitoring drilling rigs or results from geophysical surveys.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
While Florida might not have any rigs near its shore, the Sunshine State often suffers some of the greatest climate consequences.
—Kylie Williams, Miami Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
Now Singh, who is not related to Harjinder Singh, has dozens of drivers working for him, driving rigs between the mid-Atlantic to Texas and Oklahoma.
—Joel Rose, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
Noun
The new product enters a crowded market for towable camera rigs, which have proliferated outside big box stores, strip malls and construction sites since the pandemic.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
The annual Dakar Rally may be best known for the sandstorming, badlands-bashing trucks, buggies and motorcycles that compete within its map boundaries, but the event has also inspired some radical on- and off-road support rigs and RVs.
—New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2025
With complex rigs, the filmmaker can record an actor’s movements live and blend the resulting image with digital creations.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2025
The company doesn’t sell its high-tech rigs to local municipalities.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Two would involve building and operating drilling rigs on Mars, with one campaign proposing to drill as far down as five kilometers to reach subsurface regions where potentially life-bearing liquid water might exist.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2025
Processing massive volumes of real-time data, such as data from sensors monitoring drilling rigs or results from geophysical surveys.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
While Florida might not have any rigs near its shore, the Sunshine State often suffers some of the greatest climate consequences.
—Kylie Williams, Miami Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
Now Singh, who is not related to Harjinder Singh, has dozens of drivers working for him, driving rigs between the mid-Atlantic to Texas and Oklahoma.
—Joel Rose, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigs
Noun
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The summer visit by the French couple was met with clear skies and beautiful sunshine, and the first view of carriages containing heads of state and Prince William and Princess Kate helping host the visitors came in streets under the castle walls.—
Simon Perry,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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A couple dozen of the property’s 127 guest rooms are situated within Pullman train carriages dating from the 1920s to the 1960s; all of which are parked at a one-time train station that’s now a destination full of restaurants, shopping, and events.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
31 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Venezuela supplies Cuba with oil, with around 30,000 barrels arriving in Cuba every day.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
4 Jan. 2026
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Frozen orange juice concentrate supplies a solid dose of vitamin C, about 380 milligrams in one cup, which supports muscle repair and recovery, Pasquariello says.—
Ashia Aubourg,
Outside,
3 Jan. 2026
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Living in an expensive city, surrounded by colleagues who billed a hundred hours a week and ordered cabs home at midnight, McCoy was always the poorest man in the room.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Tech Coup by Marietje Schaake Technology has been tangled up in modern life for a long time, but the entwinement of Big Tech, as an industry, with our daily habits—everything from tracking friends to hiring cabs—is new.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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If Jentleson’s aim is to moderate an increasingly radical Team Blue, this certainly equips him with a solid rationale.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
29 Oct. 2025
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If Jentleson’s aim is to moderate an increasingly radical Team Blue, this certainly equips him with a solid rationale.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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The flip-flop has been very much embraced in the celebrity world, serving as an easygoing accent to outfits like Hailey Bieber’s blue jeans, white T-shirt and black leather jacket combo or Zoë Kravitz’s vintage denim suit.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Batman and Robin outfits donned by West and Ward on their 1966-68 ABC series together sold for $575,000, while one worn by Cesar Romero as the Joker went for $212,000.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Tents, chariots and other production gear were auctioned off so the couple could pay their creditors.—
Kristina Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Dec. 2025
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Hannah and his team also built chariots specific to each Camp Half-Blood cabin, with a trident adorning Percy and Tyson’s (Daniel Diemer) for the Poseidon cabin and a steampunk version for the Hephaestus cabin, among others.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Dec. 2025
Verb
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In a brick building atop a hill a half-mile from the Racing Capital of the World, the decades-old bar furnishes regulars with beer buckets and burgers every day of the week.—
Bradley Hohulin,
IndyStar,
7 Nov. 2025
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The civil-rights movement, which Williams so pointedly admires, furnishes an excellent example of this.—
Andrea Long Chu,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Inside, the wasp provisions its offspring with paralyzed spiders or insects.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Rigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigs. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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