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Recent Examples of stagecoach
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.
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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
John Ford’s film made a star of John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, a fugitive from the law who’s called upon to protect a stagecoach traveling through dangerous territory.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
Missouri Town’s many structures were selected to provide a comprehensive view of the time period and include homes, businesses, a church, livery stable, school, tavern/inn, stagecoach stop, outhouse and smokehouse.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
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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
John Ford’s film made a star of John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, a fugitive from the law who’s called upon to protect a stagecoach traveling through dangerous territory.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025
Missouri Town’s many structures were selected to provide a comprehensive view of the time period and include homes, businesses, a church, livery stable, school, tavern/inn, stagecoach stop, outhouse and smokehouse.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 16 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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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
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Then, there’s the one about the two Asian guys who are harnessed to a chariot and made to pull it along, like horses, with bits in their mouths, while this other Asian guy, holding the reins, lashes them with a whip.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Georgi then watched as the trio pulled away in their cab.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Will plays Tyson, who drove cabs before joining Dwight's crew as an enforcer.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 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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Yurachek balked at the idea that candidates to be the next full-time football coach would be underequipped like Pittman.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Sep. 2025
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Moments after the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 26-21 Week 4 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday, Jags head coach Liam Coen made a beeline for 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Sep. 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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This week's crash marks the latest in a string of incidents involving Amish buggies or travelers in Gladwin County and across Michigan, with five crashes reported in August, two fatal, the Detroit Free Press reported.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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As the camera pans down in the video, the reason for the empty buggy seat becomes clear: her other child is riding happily in the storage space underneath the stroller, by her feet.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Stagecoach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stagecoach. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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