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Noun
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That includes plant saucers, watering cans, buckets, wheelbarrows, tarps, birdbaths and rain barrels.—
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
Noun
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Turn compost piles every two weeks.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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Windscale’s two piles had been hastily built during the British atomic bomb project.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The occasional roars of delivery trucks and motorcycles that used our alleys to get around the traffic of the main roads, to cut through the city.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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These include blending hydrogen with natural gas for use in pipelines, powering heavy-duty trucks, and using hydrogen in industrial boilers.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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While their mounds can be unsightly in lawns, the ants do not sting.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
23 Apr. 2026
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Stale ashtrays and spittoons were everywhere, along with wastebaskets surrounded by mounds of misaimed and crumpled papers.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In an untitled work from 1995, a cluster of sturdy wagons sits at the edge of a frozen lake, a site where her family of peripatetic horse traders often camped.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Archaeologists also found everyday items used by the crew, including tools, harnesses and parts of wagons.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Park Service recommends that people not disturb, knock down or add to cairns, though some parks caution visitors not to rely on them as official pathways.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2026
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Above the glacial lake Ullswater, prehistoric cairns and burial mounds dot the high moorland, including the Cockpit Stone Circle, which spans 90 feet.—
Andrea Bussell,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Outside of the trailer, Butler has coffee carts that can be used for indoor events.—
Matthew Ablon,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Agility claims upgraded limbs and advanced end effectors expand Digit’s manipulation range, enabling tasks such as stacking totes, loading carts, and handling varied materials.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Carcasses of trees are piled up like pyres in one; in another, they are laid flat like a mass grave.—
Sean Timberlake,
Sacbee.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Varanasi was quite an experience, seeing the funeral pyres.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Barrows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrows. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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