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
Gael Morales drops an extra stake in a wheelbarrow as crews work to stabilize Christmas trees following flooding, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at a farm in Georgetown, Texas.
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CBS News, 11 July 2025
Additionally, maneuvering a heavy wheelbarrow full of yard waste and compost up and down a hill is significantly more challenging than moving a wheelbarrow across a level surface.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
Among the key highlights of the WWE Queen of the Ring finals were:
Asuka dominated early on and locked in an ankle lock before Cargill countered it with a wheelbarrow German suplex.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Very large men looking ridiculous pushing little wheelbarrows with vases on top?
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 May 2025
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CBS News, 11 July 2025
Additionally, maneuvering a heavy wheelbarrow full of yard waste and compost up and down a hill is significantly more challenging than moving a wheelbarrow across a level surface.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
Among the key highlights of the WWE Queen of the Ring finals were:
Asuka dominated early on and locked in an ankle lock before Cargill countered it with a wheelbarrow German suplex.
—Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Very large men looking ridiculous pushing little wheelbarrows with vases on top?
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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The beloved East Coast grocery chain began with two brothers selling produce from a pushcart in 1916; now fourth-gen CEO Colleen Wegman has expanded it beyond 100 locations.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Joan scrambled to dump the pushcart of her possessions into a Coney Island trash can on the beach off the boardwalk way down from her building so her landlord wouldn’t see.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
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The potential witness told investigators that Castillo came to her door with the grapes and that Geter-Pataky was in a pick-up truck and waved to her.—
Dave Altimari,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
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Officers arrived to find one of the vehicles, a truck, overturned.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
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Lisbon climbs hills with mosaic-tiled façades, rattling vintage trams, and panoramic viewpoints glowing at dusk over terracotta rooftops.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Several days a week, a tram departs from the visitor center for a ride into the wilds of False Cape State Park.—
Erin Gifford,
Southern Living,
8 Aug. 2025
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Demonstrations against Willis wagons were a precursor to a more sweeping Civil Rights Movement in Chicago that drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the city in 1966 — the same year Willis resigned.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Like the Gregory, this wagon has hard plastic wheels.—
Chris Haslam,
Wired News,
9 Aug. 2025
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Ahead, Schroeder dishes how to do just that, and reveals the best pizza toppings to pair with street cart onion sauce.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Aug. 2025
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Customers must agree to keep their delivery area clear of people and pets The Walmart app alerts a customer when their cart reaches the drone delivery weight and volume limits.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The ancient long barrow, located at the border of the villages Dlouhé Dvory and Lípa in the country’s eastern Bohemia region, measures roughly 620 feet long and 50 feet wide at its largest point.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
2 July 2024
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Another Bronze Age cemetery located ten miles from Stonehenge features 20 barrows, or circular mounds, some of which show signs of cremation.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Dec. 2023
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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 20 Aug. 2025.
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