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Recent Examples of rockaway
The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage.
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Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
Beres Hammond: The reggae star comes to rockaway as part of his Never Ending Tour.
—Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rockaway
Noun
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When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.—
Hannah Kirby,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2024
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The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.—
Tim Ebner,
Washington Post,
10 July 2024
Noun
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Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.—
Simon Webster,
The New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2023
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Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.—
Danny McDonald,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 July 2018
Noun
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The cab seats swivel around to create a four-person dining lounge, and the rear bench includes two seatbelts for carrying a total of four occupants when driving.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 July 2025
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Victor, who somehow survived, was in the truck’s cab suffering seizures from chemical burns.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 July 2025
Noun
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The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.—
Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
30 May 2024
Noun
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The session also featured the debut of a teaser trailer for the coming season, including the first look at Daniel Diemer as Tyson, the cyclops who befriends Percy (Walker Scobell), and a very brief glimpse at a chariot race at camp.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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And yet, everyone says the true standout scenes of the season actually take place back at Camp Half-Blood: the chariot races.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 July 2025
Noun
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Charlotte leaned into its getaway sensibilities, dressing the Reid Classics four-poster bed in Thibaut’s Moselle print and the numerous windows, as well as the Lee Industries chaise, in their Garden Club pattern.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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The chaise is essentially a cross between a sofa and a daybed and arrives with minimal assembly required.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 July 2025
Noun
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To be frank, many of the early devices on the market weren't very good—Valve’s Steam Deck kicked off a wave of PC manufacturers looking to compete with the Nintendo Switch, but many of the offerings were rushed, buggy, or just not a great way to play games.—
Brad Bourque,
Wired News,
4 Aug. 2025
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Accounts axed abruptly About a year ago, claims of Dictionary.com’s apps being buggy surfaced online.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
17 July 2025
Noun
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 May 2022
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The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.—
Doug MacCash,
NOLA.com,
17 Sep. 2017
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“Rockaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rockaway. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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