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
In Velasco, a town in the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, a man was buried in a cardboard box, his body carted on a wheelbarrow to the cemetery because of a lack of both of wooden coffins and fuel.
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Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
But feel free to award Beltrán a giant wheelbarrow full of them.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Call a wheelbarrow into service as a plant support; sturdy lawn furniture can multi-task as plant support, too.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
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Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2026
As one of the men operated the mechanical digger, the other stood by with the wheelbarrow, into which his co-worker dumped an occasional load of earth mixed with stones, to go on a refuse heap in a corner of the cemetery.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
But feel free to award Beltrán a giant wheelbarrow full of them.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Call a wheelbarrow into service as a plant support; sturdy lawn furniture can multi-task as plant support, too.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wheelbarrow
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Dutch Bros started as a pushcart coffee operation in downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, in 1992, according to the company’s website.—
Linda Girardi,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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Essex Market on the Lower East Side echoes with the memory of pushcart vendors and immigrant families.—
Christina Stanton,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Feb. 2026
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Images from Chopper 3 showed the charred remains of the truck sitting in the median near the City Avenue exit.—
Joe Brandt,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Large trucks account for five per cent of the vehicles in the United States but play a role in ten per cent of fatal accidents.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Solo Ball landed a second tram spot for the second year in a row, while Braylon Mullins was unanimously selected to the freshman team.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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To reach the structure, visitors had to climb a long set of stairs or ride a private tram up the slope.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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The fire department was equipped with a trough, mounted on wagon wheels upon which buckets hung at the ready.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Apr. 2026
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From a quick trip to the park to a weekend away, Keenz wagons offer style and comfort.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Copying Hudson's natural glam starts with filling your cart with the eight products below.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Portland has over 500 food carts citywide, offering everything from global street food to creative comfort dishes — all at prices that make eating adventurously easy on the wallet.—
Lauren Schuster,
Kansas City Star,
15 Apr. 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 19 Apr. 2026.
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