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
That includes plant saucers, watering cans, buckets, wheelbarrows, tarps, birdbaths and rain barrels.
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Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes in planters and keep buckets covered or indoors.
—Ryan Brennan
april 30, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes and keep containers under cover.
—Ryan Brennan
april 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
The chapters include wheelbarrow nachos, served in a wheelbarrow, double cheeseburger, butter chicken, Korean BBQ, gnocchi ( in honor of his Italian grandmother), Mardi Gras, seafood, pierogi, mac and cheese, pizza nachos.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
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Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes in planters and keep buckets covered or indoors.
—Ryan Brennan
april 30, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
Flip wheelbarrows, drill drainage holes and keep containers under cover.
—Ryan Brennan
april 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
The chapters include wheelbarrow nachos, served in a wheelbarrow, double cheeseburger, butter chicken, Korean BBQ, gnocchi ( in honor of his Italian grandmother), Mardi Gras, seafood, pierogi, mac and cheese, pizza nachos.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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Advertisement Opened in 1936 as the Park Avenue Retail Market, La Marqueta was originally created to bring pushcart vendors under one roof and improve access to fresh food for working-class New Yorkers.—
Nandika Chatterjee,
Time,
21 May 2026
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Stairs aren't an option for Mitchell, who needs a walker or pushcart to get around, and takes the Metra Electric Line twice a week to care for her mother.—
Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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Escalante Sandoval then approached the parked van, removed a key concealed in the gas cap and backed it up, allowing a group of people to move three deep freezers from the van into the bed of the truck and load them with packages.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Bystanders ran to the truck to pull Harrell out, authorities said.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Just down the road (or a single stop on the tram) are swanky malls like Central Embassy, Siam Paragon, and Centralworld, one of the largest shopping centers in Thailand.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Visitors can watch humpback whales surface offshore, ride a tram above downtown, stand face-to-face with or even on Mendenhall Glacier, a river of ice flowing from the vast Juneau Icefield.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Davis and other state officials attempted to circle the wagons.—
Bryan P. Sears,
Baltimore Sun,
28 May 2026
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The Avs began the season on a Stanley Cup-or-bust wagon.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
27 May 2026
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That transparency push is changing how brands talk to shoppers on packaging — and which products land in the cart.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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The restaurant brand, which has three spots found in Anaheim, Santa Ana and Orange, as well as roaming taco trucks and carts, turns 46 this year.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
3 June 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 6 Jun. 2026.
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