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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
This can double as a good way to hide garden hoses and wheelbarrows.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
Pour 3 parts potting soil and 1 part seed into a wheelbarrow and mix well with a shovel.
—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
Public Hazard Two men push a wheelbarrow through Old Havana on March 9 as others go about their daily lives, navigating streets blocked by piles of trash that create unsafe, unsanitary conditions and disrupt traffic.
—Thomas E. Franklin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
Using a dual-tire wheelbarrow can help move yard supplies and debris more efficiently.
—Campbell Vaughn, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2026
Pour 3 parts potting soil and 1 part seed into a wheelbarrow and mix well with a shovel.
—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
Public Hazard Two men push a wheelbarrow through Old Havana on March 9 as others go about their daily lives, navigating streets blocked by piles of trash that create unsafe, unsanitary conditions and disrupt traffic.
—Thomas E. Franklin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
Using a dual-tire wheelbarrow can help move yard supplies and debris more efficiently.
—Campbell Vaughn, USA Today, 15 Mar. 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,
20 Apr. 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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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
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Considered Lisbon’s highest perch, this Graça hideaway, close to a stop for the fabled 28 tram, has amazing views of the castle just across the way, and the city and Tagus River beyond.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 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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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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Bessent hitched his wagon to Trump in 2023, using his reputation on Wall Street to rally support among business leaders for the returning president.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Apr. 2026
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In present-day Cuba, older adults drag carts loaded with a portable gas tank or a container of charcoal.—
Sarah Moreno
Updated April 29,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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Students come in, pick up a cart or basket, and swivel through the aisles, adding apples, noodles, potatoes and milk to their haul.—
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
29 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 2 May. 2026.
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