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 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 The response by a functionary was widely thought of as absurdly anachronistic: A scene in which hooligans stone to death a baby in a pram could not be publicly staged. Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pram 
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Noun
  • This is part of the company's years-long push to get rid of kernel extensions and to make drivers and other things run in user mode, where there's less of a risk of buggy code bringing down an entire system (the big CrowdStrike Windows crash?
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Google is working on a fix for a buggy Wear OS 5 update.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Expect to find swivel gliders in airy white linen, cribs and dressers accented with handwoven caning, and daybeds made from honey-toned rattan.
    Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Founded in 2011, Baby2Baby has distributed more than 450 million essentials — including diapers, formula, clothing and cribs — to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care agencies, hospitals, underserved school districts and disaster areas.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 21 Oct. 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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  • In the final stretch before Election Day, with the presidential race in a dead heat, 83-year-old Republican Sandy Tate was volunteering at a Trump campaign booth at the Campbell Farmers Market when a couple pushing their toddler in a stroller passed by.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
  • My parents would take me to marches in a stroller where crowds of people of all races, faiths, and walks of life came together to fight for the ideals of freedom and opportunity.
    Kizzy Cox, Essence, 30 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the mid-18th century, rich circles around Europe began sporting early versions of baby carriages.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 July 2024
  • Years later, when l was married, my father saw Irene in front of our building pushing a baby carriage holding twins.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • 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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