tonga

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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • This, on top of the shady Mass Pike service plaza deal, the Mercedes cab contract, and the failure to audit the legislature.
    Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The cab includes a pair of bunk beds behind the seats.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The property was owned in the 1800s by one of the early Big Sur settler families, the Pfeiffers, who operated a lodge and cabins for visitors who came by stagecoach.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly 200 buildings in the historic downtown district are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including a 1779 stagecoach stop that today is the Old Talbott Tavern, the oldest bourbon bar in the world.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Members of the Amish community are grieving the deaths of two children, who were killed when the driver of a Mini Cooper struck their horse and buggy, Pennsylvania authorities say.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Three consortiums are competing to supply the buggy, dubbed the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), a contemporary version of the Lunar Roving Vehicle first deployed with the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Tonga.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonga. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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