as in pushcart
a vehicle with two handles, a large bowl, and usually one wheel that is used for carrying heavy loads of dirt, rocks, etc.
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Recent Examples of wheelbarrow
Visitors pay between $75 and $90 to choose and cut their own trees, with saws and wheelbarrows provided.
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Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
Outsize portraits of all three are hauled down endless streets as crowds of obligatory fans parade their wheelbarrows, shovels and carbines.
—Will Tizard, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
Several customers were busy filling the available wheelbarrows with their choices.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Toddlers can help Peppa water the garden, load up the mini wheelbarrow with fresh veggies, and even keep the toolshed up to date for harvesting.
—Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
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Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
Outsize portraits of all three are hauled down endless streets as crowds of obligatory fans parade their wheelbarrows, shovels and carbines.
—Will Tizard, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
Several customers were busy filling the available wheelbarrows with their choices.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Toddlers can help Peppa water the garden, load up the mini wheelbarrow with fresh veggies, and even keep the toolshed up to date for harvesting.
—Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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The family’s history in the apparel industry started in 1910 when Samuel Spiegel and his brother Harry began selling neckwear from a pushcart on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
5 Feb. 2026
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At some point, Elliott began filming the encounter and apparently grabbed a gun from his pushcart.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
4 Dec. 2025
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He was arrested due to the fact his truck was still running.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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SkyCal flew over the spot of the shooting, where two vehicles, a white van and a black pickup truck, both had doors ajar as police surveyed the area where there were multiple evidence markers on the parking lot asphalt.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Check out Sky Adventures Arenal Park, which has several attractions to choose from, including zip line adventures, hanging bridges, and an aerial tram.—
Lauren P. Reyes,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rossi, an Italian sporting icon, was spotted in a video driving an old tram.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
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Alta Dena was founded by three Stueve brothers in Monrovia at the end of World War II, with 61 cows and a milk wagon.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps the biggest clue that the TBX series is more than your grandpa's retirement wagon comes at the very back of the motorhome.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Feb. 2026
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Just in time for Presidents Day, the outlet is offering an extra 20% and then an additional 10% off select items, automatically applied in your cart.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Feb. 2026
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Similarly, Bad Bunny also stopped at a piraguas cart recreation and briefly grabbed a frozen dessert.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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Near the town of Sanquhar, a southwestern Scottish community nestled in verdant countryside, researchers stumbled upon a Bronze Age barrow—the first find of its kind in the area.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2025
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The landscape also offers up eighteenth-century farmhouses, lairds’ castles, Norse churches, Iron Age forts, and Bronze Age barrows alongside the Neolithic tombs, settlements, and standing stones—thousands of sites altogether, across twenty-odd inhabited islands.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Dutro specializes in fabricating equipment like hand trucks, carts and dollies, so a vehicular trailer in the hot overland adventure market is a natural extension of its talents.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Apr. 2025
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Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.—
Andrew Ford,
USA TODAY,
11 Sep. 2024
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“Wheelbarrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wheelbarrow. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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