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as in carriage
a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers
romantic couples enjoy being driven in the old-fashioned rig through the park
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as in clothing
covering for the human body
most of the celebrants of the town's bicentennial will be in festive rig—so don't show up in jeans
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as in to equip
to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity
carefully rigged each diver with the required equipment before starting out
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Recent Examples of rig
Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
Not to be outdone, Intel and AMD are also expected to announce chips that will make your current gaming rig feel like a calculator.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2025
Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
All allegations that the 2024 election was rigged are speculative, and there are no investigations examining the claims.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noun
They are surrounded by a chaotic lattice of masts and rigs, hallmarks of the nautical flow that brought people and goods to ports along the Thames.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
Not to be outdone, Intel and AMD are also expected to announce chips that will make your current gaming rig feel like a calculator.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
The malware then paved the way for the North Korean hackers to rig a cryptocurrency transaction request for a DMM Bitcoin employee, sending 4,502.9 in Bitcoin to the attacker’s wallets.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
All allegations that the 2024 election was rigged are speculative, and there are no investigations examining the claims.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rig
Noun
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This tea house celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is situated in a two-story building that was once a—ding, ding, ding—carriage house.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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The pumphouse campus once had a machine shop, storehouse, carriage house and stables and a brick-making kiln.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2025
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Whether that’s ruffled silhouettes or embellishing clothing with messaging or her own logo in a unique manner, she’s got her sights set on continuing to offer interesting garments.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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There was so much clothing donated that donation centers started turning away offers.—
Kristin Deasy,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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As reported in the Tribune after 2024’s festival, this summer’s event will have a second stage, more staff, additional entrances and larger grounds with a dance zone equipped for additional performances, DJ sets, and perreo along with more food vendors, bars, live-stream screens, seating and shade.—
Doug George,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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Any concern outside the club over whether Liverpool are sufficiently equipped for the challenges ahead isn’t shared by those within.—
James Pearce,
The Athletic,
4 Feb. 2025
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The service will subsequently arrive in more cities with thousands of self-driving cabs, notes CEO David Risher.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article A 90-year-old woman was killed Wednesday on the Upper East Side after being struck by the driver of a yellow cab, and then run over by another driver, police said.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2025
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The legislation was akin to the World War II Lend-Lease Act, in which equipment is supplied at no cost and is to be used until returned or destroyed.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Indeed, Lillian Ross’s became the cool tone of American journalism for the next fifty years, as Tom Wolfe supplied its hot one.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Now evidence of trip is found One of the artifacts was a terret ring, which would have been used on Celtic chariots to help guide the horse reins, the organization said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2025
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The small asteroid, which is more than 3 miles in diameter, approaches so close to the sun that it was named for the son of the sun-god Helios, who in Greek mythology lost control of his father's chariot and set the Earth ablaze.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American-Statesman,
11 Dec. 2024
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Reflecting on the incident, the OP speculated that her outfit, which resembled the daycare staff's attire.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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The ceremony also featured a tribute to Quincy Jones, with Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Cynthia Erivo, Lainey Wilson and Janelle Monáe (in full Michael Jackson attire) paying homage to the late music legend.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
4 Feb. 2025
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For years after the headquarters moved to Battersea, Foster maintained a vast apartment on the office’s top floor, which was furnished with little but a seventy-foot mural by the artist Richard Long.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Customers include big-box, home furnishing retailers and service providers such as Ashley Furniture, Big Sandy Home Furnishings, Yale and Baron's Appliances.—
Richard Collings,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Rig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rig. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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