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Recent Examples of tow
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
One Facebook post and 48 hours later, Sonny was at Humboldt Park, sandwiches and sons in tow.
—Kylie Volavongsa, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Not long after, a quad-cab Dodge Ram, black with Alabama license plates, pulled up to the warehouse towing a flatbed trailer.
—Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2025
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Verb
That means robots are about to hit some of the country's busiest shipping lanes, with doors in tow.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2025
One Facebook post and 48 hours later, Sonny was at Humboldt Park, sandwiches and sons in tow.
—Kylie Volavongsa, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
After crews contained the fire, a fire truck hit a rock on the way down the mountain and had to be towed, the Mountain Green Fire Protection District said.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2025
Not long after, a quad-cab Dodge Ram, black with Alabama license plates, pulled up to the warehouse towing a flatbed trailer.
—Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tow
Verb
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Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.—
Kelly Allen,
House Beautiful,
10 Feb. 2023
Noun
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The nearby fire department rushed by boat to the crash site and were assisted by a private tug boat that helped douse the fire that belched black smoke from the barge, said Alton Deputy Fire Chief Matt Fischer.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Most exoplanetary discoveries instead arise through far more indirect means, such as the dip in a star’s light caused by a world passing between its sun and our telescope or the tiny wobbling of a star caused by an orbiting planet’s gravitational tug.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Thousands of pounds of marijuana After returning with a search warrant, authorities found and began hauling away thousands of pounds of marijuana in different forms, beginning late last week and lasting through the weekend.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 28 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit, where they're scheduled to be deployed 64 minutes after launch.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As noted last weekend, the split is usually in the other direction, but Asia is a drag here (see more below).—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
3 Aug. 2025
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Door handles can be a significant drag for aerodynamics.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With nowhere to go, Valkyria also had to eat a wrench from Lynch as well.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Then there is also the possibility of estate problems throwing a further wrench into its value, depending on how the estate is set up and how many heirs Bollea has.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Supermarket shoppers in the Miami and Orlando areas shared Monday’s lone jackpot win among the Fantasy 5, Cash4Life and Powerball draw games.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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The Kentucky Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.—
Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Kaitlyn Santa Juana plays a college student who learns that her grandmother cheated Death decades ago, and now that jerk is coming to take out her whole family via various creatively gnarly, Rube Goldberg-esque kills.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Mid-performance, the prop jerks downward after slipping from its wire, causing a drop that nearly unseats her.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
19 July 2025
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“Tow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tow. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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