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as in wagon
a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling a cart piled up with hay

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verb

as in to carry
to support and take from one place to another carted a knapsack filled with books from class to class

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Recent Examples of cart
Noun
Additional activations include matcha carts, hot chocolate, and additional New York City vendors throughout the duration of the pop-up. Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025 Two separate hand-washing sinks in the kitchen were blocked by equipment and carts with food. Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
In the backyard, boys and men chopped down trees to cart away for firewood. Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024 One mom agreed to cart the group around during the day. Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cart 
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Noun
  • The Boilermakers had a particularly audacious opening — wins over then-No. 2 Alabama and a good Ole Miss team, losses to Texas A&M, Marquette and the wagon that is Auburn.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Stay in one of the Avalanche Ranch Cabins and Hot Springs’ log cabins or wagons, constructed between 1890 and 1950.
    Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In a sentencing memorandum, prosecutors wrote that despite there being nearly a dozen people inside the boat, the vessel that ultimately capsized was only rated to carry five passengers.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In one, five women in white hanbok, carrying bundles of white laundry on their heads, form a tight, diagonal spiral (in response to gusts of wind?) against dark fields of grass and cropland.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • No further precision has been provided by police, except that the cash was hauled away in duffle bags, according to some of the Colombians interviewed.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
  • After that, authorities will need to secure permission from the property owners to have the rest of the debris hauled out, Swenson said.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Early morning Friday, shelter staff and animal control officers transported pet crates loaded with dogs and cats to Gillespie Field, where they were then carried across the tarmac and placed on the plane.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The six-episode Western drama written and created by Mark L. Smith and directed by Peter Berg, follows the journey of Sara (Betty Gilpin), a woman on the run, who seeks out a guide at Fort Bridger in Wyoming to assist her in transporting her young son Devin (Preston Mota) to his father in Missouri.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Readers may remember how the city’s Department of Investigation in 2021 dinged de Blasio not only for the presidential campaign, but to help move his daughter from her Brooklyn apartment to Gracie Mansion, as well as ferrying his son Dante around New York and to college in Connecticut.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The county fire department handles a variety of emergencies: hoisting drivers to safety when cars veer off canyon embankments or ferrying the injured and the critically ill to hospitals.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • It’s packed with footage from that eight-month period, including outraged football fans burning Simpson jerseys and poignant courtroom scenes.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • President-elect Trump will be sworn in Monday inside the Capitol Rotunda, and D.C. will be packed with events surrounding the inauguration.
    Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Such cases bring home the importance of mutually respectful communication when making such requests.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Her two large-scale, colourful installations will bring a festive dimension to this anniversary edition.
    Kissa Castaneda, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cart. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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