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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
Filming took place over 105 days and required the use of 5,000 extras; 130 carriages, carts and boats; 100 animals; and 12 animal trainers. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2025 Simpler robots — small robotic arms and autonomous carts, for instance — have long shared the workload inside warehouses and factories. Cade Metz, New York Times, 4 Apr. 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
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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
  • There were so many physical scenes and heavy emotions carried throughout.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The charges carry a combined sentence of 24 to 62 years in prison, Drummond said, and up to $260,000 in fines.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 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
  • The second victim was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • That person was transported to a local hospital in critical condition but has since been upgraded to stable, according to the sheriff's office.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 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 rover is packed with features designed with the next generation of Artemis program moon explorers in mind and is based on feedback from current NASA astronauts at NASA's Johnson Space Center, according to Lunar Outpost's A.J Gerner.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 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
  • Because of the state’s stance that only those on death row can bring innocence claims before a court, Hemme’s attorneys alleged constitutional violations — including that police hid evidence of Holman as a better suspect and that her previous attorneys were ineffective.
    Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cart. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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