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as in to send
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
I'll have to transport the car to our new home overseas by public carrier
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as in to excite
to fill with great joy
was absolutely transported when she heard that her brother was getting married
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as in to entrance
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
was transported with wonder when she saw the Matterhorn for the first time
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as in to exile
to force to leave a country
the offending journalist was transported out of the country and ordered to never return
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as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
was in transports of joy after winning the championship
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as in vehicle
something used to carry goods or passengers
rising gas prices will impel more people to use public transport
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Recent Examples of transport
Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
To avoid this tax, agents in China would often pay for European merchant vessels to transport the migrants to other Australian ports, according to the National Museum of Australia.
—Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Kendall Hill, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2025
Up close with the wildlife Unlike a typical cruise, expedition cruising transports you to locations that are hard, or even impossible, to visit via any other method.
—Robin Catalano, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Verb
Rescuers worked for two days to safely locate, remove, and transport the dogs to care facilities.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
To avoid this tax, agents in China would often pay for European merchant vessels to transport the migrants to other Australian ports, according to the National Museum of Australia.
—Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Noun
Transfers and local transport is by Mercedes Benz electric vans, and water is drawn straight from the river and purified for lodge use.
—Kendall Hill, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2025
Up close with the wildlife Unlike a typical cruise, expedition cruising transports you to locations that are hard, or even impossible, to visit via any other method.
—Robin Catalano, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transport
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As the day goes on, an AI assistant might manage your to-do list and send you reminders to take a break now and then.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Hotel Assault 8 hr 2 min ago The jury was shown messages Combs sent Ventura four days after the assault at the InterContinental Hotel in 2016.—
Danielle Bacher,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Knowledge can excite wonder but so too can a joking voice, a sympathetic gesture and an unforeseen act of kindness.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The work’s prospect for enhancing our understanding of gravitational-wave sources excites scientists who are gearing up for this new wave of detectors.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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There’s a gruff lyricism to the performance that’s entrancing even when Elmer is standing up in a coffin.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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If some readers were befuddled by Mr. Holland’s strange and magical imagery, graphic artists were entranced.—
Penelope Green,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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With Waltz exiled to New York, Rubio must keep striving to keep Trump and the U.S. government true to friends like Ukraine and wary of deals with Putin.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2025
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His older sons had become enthusiastic crypto proponents after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol effectively exiled the family business from the mainstream financial system.—
Eric Lipton,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Two Richard Prince paintings carried the sale’s weight financially, bringing in $7.5 million with fees, constituting around 40 percent of the first sale’s total.—
Robb Report,
Robb Report,
18 May 2025
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Police previously said the van was carrying 14 people, and the truck’s driver was alone.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
18 May 2025
Noun
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Throughout the trial, Ventura has been open about her prior dependence on opioids, as well as her use of MDMA, ecstasy, ketamine, mushrooms, cocaine, marijuana and other drugs.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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These are important and if they are not statistically accounted for the technical skills of the game won’t be important and will be lost to the ecstasy of the home run and the agony of the strikeout.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
15 May 2025
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That's far from the only change the Japanese company is making to its only fully-electric vehicle for the U.S. market.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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According to a crash report, a 2004 Ford Explorer drove west on K-10 when the driver, a 32-year-old woman, lost control of the vehicle.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2025
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The sausage was produced on May 12, 2025 and then shipped to Rouses Market locations in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
21 May 2025
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The frames were built in Poland and shipped by a barge through the European river network to Marseille’s port on France’s southern coast for the contractor to pour the concrete to create 18 cubes.—
Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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“Transport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transport. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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