pram

chiefly British
as in buggy
a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in like other trendy Notting Hill couples, they bought a fancy pram for the first baby

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Recent Examples of pram Next door, The Pantry offers every doodad parents might need: washing machines, tumble dryers, and bottle sterilizers to use around the clock, plus a range of family amenities — baby bathtubs, rockers, and prams — on loan for the duration of your stay. Chris Schalkx, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024 But the street-side terraces that replaced them were equally chaotic, turning a stroll on the avenue into an assault course, especially for visitors with prams or wheelchairs. Joelle Diderich, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019 Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers. David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024 In one instance, Margaret trained two adorable cats wearing baby doll gowns to sit inside a pram, or baby carriage, in the store windows. Stephanie Forshee, Fortune, 14 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for pram 
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Noun
  • Once removed from app stores, users won’t be able to download updates to TikTok, and the app could become more buggy and difficult to use over time.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The city’s street traffic committee studied what happened when police officers stopped directing street cars, buggies and automobiles at busy intersections, including this one.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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  • Opened in May 2024, the property caters to new parents who are bringing tots – with amenities on offer such as cribs, baby monitors and bottle warmers.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Look for toddler-friendly hotels with amenities like cribs, high chairs, and play areas.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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  • Correspondent Serna Altschul looks at the history of strollers, prams and pushchairs, and at the designs and aesthetics of today's super-smooth strollers.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • Riley’s custom pushchair, designed by Adaptive Star,has no gears but does have a safety brake to slow downhill runs.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
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  • After that, the sisters mostly wheeled their babies around in black strollers.
    Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • San Franciscans had fun with it, marking historic firsts: The San Francisco Chronicle recorded the first person to walk across the bridge on stilts, pushing a stroller, on roller skates, on a unicycle and while playing a tuba.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Project Sidewalk– Use your mobile device to report the condition of city sidewalks to improve navigation for anyone using wheeled transport, especially wheelchairs, but also grocery carts, baby carriages, delivery dollies and wheeled luggage.
    Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
  • In the mid-18th century, rich circles around Europe began sporting early versions of baby carriages.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 July 2024
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  • Universal drink caddies that attach to the handles of suitcases and baby buggies.
    Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the parade highlights will include 14 pipe and drum marching bands, students from Irish dance schools performing, an appearance by Consulate General of Ireland Council Kevin Byrne and the original baby buggy parade float from the first parade in 1979.
    Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
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  • In a 1923 address to the British Royal Society of the Arts, one Samuel Sewell chided his fellow-researchers for having failed to research the history of a device as common and useful as the ubiquitous perambulator, or pram.
    Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
  • One perambulator holding big packages and a sleeping red-haired baby clutching the strings of two round, red balloons.
    Robert Richardson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022

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