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as in exchange
a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another
in medieval Europe, furs and forest products from the north were sold in truck for luxury products from the south
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as in garbage
discarded or useless material
filled a dozen large garbage bags with all the truck we collected when we cleaned the place out
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Recent Examples of truck
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday mandating that commercial truck drivers demonstrate English proficiency, building on his earlier move to designate English as the official language of the United States.
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Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
That's about as lightweight as truck campers get and is further aided along in this case by trading out the weight of the rear Wrangler cabin.
—New Atlas, 29 Apr. 2025
One county official told residents to consider removing the speed bumps along part of the truck route, so the trucks don’t have to brake and make a screeching sound.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
April 19: McVeigh parks the truck outside the federal building and flees on foot to his getaway car.
—Todd Pendleton, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
That's about as lightweight as truck campers get and is further aided along in this case by trading out the weight of the rear Wrangler cabin.
—New Atlas, 29 Apr. 2025
One county official told residents to consider removing the speed bumps along part of the truck route, so the trucks don’t have to brake and make a screeching sound.
—Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
April 19: McVeigh parks the truck outside the federal building and flees on foot to his getaway car.
—Todd Pendleton, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truck
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How the two sides got here A nuclear deal was reached in 2015 between Iran and world powers, including the US, under which Iran had agreed to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions that have crippled its economy.—
Nadeen Ebrahim,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Atlanta sent the Los Angeles Rams the 46th and 242nd picks in this year’s draft and its first-round pick next year in exchange for the Pearce pick and the 101st pick in this year’s draft.—
Josh Kendall,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Unlike a regular old garbage bag, these are leakproof and durable (and thus much harder for a squirrel to rip into, if given the chance).—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
22 Apr. 2025
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Four 20-pound bags of hamburger buns and sandwich breads got hit with Stop Sales, sending 80 pounds of bread into the garbage.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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Tracking the evolution of Donald Trump's trade war Trump reverses global tariff hikes.—
Russ Wiles,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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With a trade war kicking off, a lot of the raw materials and finished products in clean energy are likely to get more expensive.—
Umair Irfan,
Vox,
23 Apr. 2025
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For those with patience to keep them free of debris and properly chlorinated (or, more realistically, the funds to hire someone), there’s probably just enough time to close on one of these homes before a mid-season heat wave.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2025
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The lot was activated because of the magnitude of storm debris that had to be removed from the basins.—
Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Sky Project Ultra robot, also known as Tien Kung Ultra, claimed victory among the nonhumans, crossing the finish line in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds in a race that featured pit stops for battery swaps.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
23 Apr. 2025
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As with previous exchanges, the swap was mediated by the United Arab Emirates.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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There’s even been a rare dose of reality-style drama, as when contestant Shuai Wang accidentally tossed teammate Henry Lu’s entire mise en place setup in the trash — removing all the pickles from a dish in a pickle-centric challenge and sending Henry to the bottom.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 May 2025
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Tens of thousands of dollars in artwork may have ended up in the trash during a town hall renovation in the Netherlands.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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The European Space Agency estimates that there are approximately 130 million pieces of space junk from the over 6,800 successful rocket launches that have occurred since 1957.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Raised in the United Kingdom, Tiller has made a career in two tracks: Studying respiratory medicine and debunking junk science.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Among the debris were bricks, tins of paint, stones, and other assorted rubbish.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
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The effort has so far transformed more than 10 tons of flowers from would-be rubbish into fragrant souvenirs.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truck. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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