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Recent Examples of stagecoach
The Inn at Narrow Passage is an 18th-century stagecoach inn along the Shenandoah River.
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Tykesha Spivey Burton, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
The term predates automobiles entirely, harkening back to the Wild West when the passenger sitting next to a stagecoach driver would carry a very literal shotgun.
—Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
The 1951 Disneyland maps included a Ghost Town, Blacksmith and Gold Mine while the 1953 maps featured a School House and Wells Fargo stagecoach stop.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
Mail was delivered by stagecoach, steamboat and then railway, sorted on board moving trains.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 23 July 2025
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Tykesha Spivey Burton, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
The term predates automobiles entirely, harkening back to the Wild West when the passenger sitting next to a stagecoach driver would carry a very literal shotgun.
—Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
The 1951 Disneyland maps included a Ghost Town, Blacksmith and Gold Mine while the 1953 maps featured a School House and Wells Fargo stagecoach stop.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 7 Aug. 2025
Mail was delivered by stagecoach, steamboat and then railway, sorted on board moving trains.
—Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stagecoach
Noun
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Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
16 Aug. 2021
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.—
Dan Neil,
WSJ,
31 Aug. 2017
Noun
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Sports gambling scandals stretch back to chariot racing days.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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High jinks ensue, including a hilarious scene in the Big Game with a scampering dog and a chariot chase.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The design included a sleek, jet-age body and forward cab placement to distance occupants from radiation exposure.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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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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If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2023
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Penguins coach Dan Muse echoed Crosby’s sentiments.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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There are still high-profile openings at Florida, Penn State, and UCLA, all of which may involve the coach's name.—
Nelson Espinal,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Such vehicles were nothing new: Chariots came from the Romans, the curricle chair applied to royalty, and the French post chaise became the one-horse shay.—
Brenda Yenke,
cleveland.com,
7 Feb. 2018
Noun
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Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
13 June 2024
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2022
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The sheriff said the road where the crash took place, Fillmore County Road 1, is shared by buggies and has signs warning drivers of the slow traffic, so drivers must be extra careful.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
18 Oct. 2025
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If Max goes down because an update is buggy, servers break, or someone launches a cyberattack, the app could be offline for some period—in this case, potentially halting millions of bank payments, messages, and identity-verification attempts through the app.—
Justin Sherman,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Stagecoach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagecoach. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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