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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
Dozens of families quit their homes in Tel Al-Sultan heading northward to Khan Younis, some on foot, while others carried their belongings and children on donkey carts and rickshaws. Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2025 There was another dad one aisle over with a girl about James’s age sitting in his cart. Andrew Forrester, Parents, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
The trailer tells the story of an elderly icon who is being carted around to comic book signings despite being exhausted. Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025 Sadly, the relief of the moment is undercut by Buck’s realization that his new best friend is being carted off to a kill shelter, where he’ll be euthanized unless he’s adopted. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cart
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cart
Noun
  • The wagon floats start at Bienville and Chartres streets at 10:30am and end at the restaurant.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Really helped pull the wagon at WWE during a transitional period as well.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Swenson risked his life to carry the wounded to safety.
    Julie Depenbrock, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Wall Street is also bullish, with all seven analysts covering Amdocs carrying the equivalent of a buy, and a consensus price target of about $103, implying more than 13% upside from Friday’s close, according to LSEG.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • While consensus across Europe is difficult to achieve, several countries have made concerted efforts to haul up their own defense budgets.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
  • On Sunday, Teichert Construction, based in Sacramento, began using trucks, front loaders and other equipment to start hauling away the main pile blocking both lanes.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Natural gas has historically been harder to transport and a lower margin good.
    Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Each scent captures a distinct encounter, using an olfactory experience to transport the wearer to a specific moment in time.
    Danielle James, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Pang received a 3-month prison sentence for ferrying a dozen Chinese nationals from Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands to Guam.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Local workers ferried from his inlet spot on Virginia Key to help build nearby Fisher Island into a luxury area, a once-virgin land where Luznar’s family used to go camping.
    Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The formula is packed with hyaluronic acid to deeply hydrate and plump the skin, and it can be applied on its own or mixed into a moisturizer.
    Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The movie is packed to the brim with self-referential humor, both directly from the game and its community, as well as from the pre-release marketing push for the movie.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • These roles lean towards the generic but the savvy casting of veteran actors still manage to bring some character to their anonymity without drawing focus from the play’s principal mission.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The car manufacturer also brought its signature elegance to Tokyo with the No. 001 Minami Aoyama mansion, developed in collaboration with the top-tier Japanese luxury concierge firm Vibroa.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cart. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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