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
Outsize portraits of all three are hauled down endless streets as crowds of obligatory fans parade their wheelbarrows, shovels and carbines.
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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
Garden statues peeking from behind planters, a vintage wheelbarrow brimming with fall blooms, or even cheerful pinwheels catching the autumn breeze can add charm.
—Angie Hicks, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
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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
Garden statues peeking from behind planters, a vintage wheelbarrow brimming with fall blooms, or even cheerful pinwheels catching the autumn breeze can add charm.
—Angie Hicks, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
Noun
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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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All the hallmarks of Jewish immigrant fiction can be found in the story’s first pages: the cramped tenement, the stale bread, the pushcarts.—
Andrew Ridker,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Since then, TxDOT has continually sent fleets of trucks to plow main thoroughfares like Central Expressway in Richardson on Monday night and Highway 287 in Decatur earlier in the day.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Other EVs that made the KBB list include the 2026 Ford F-150 Lightning for best electric truck (which is now discontinued until an extended range EV version arrives) and 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5 for best EV.—
Sasha Lekach,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Then the visitor showed video proof to the 43-year-old, who drives a tram and helps people board tour boats on the island off San Francisco.—
Alex Wigglesworth,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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The Studio Tour tram will transport guests to their destination along with Scooby-Doo and his friends Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026
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On their way to watch a rodeo, Dennis and Jean Kuehl got distracted by another kind of horse event — a 40-horse team of Belgian draft horses waiting to pull a big wagon around the arena.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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Underneath, a few key upgrades set it apart from the garden-variety wagon.—
Byron Hurd,
The Drive,
22 Jan. 2026
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Head to Amazon to add the Hulken Rolling Tote Bag to your cart now, and then keep scrolling to shop more laundry carts.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
22 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, just over a quarter of Baby Boomers are willing to let AI take over their carts.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 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 28 Jan. 2026.
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