pushcart

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Recent Examples of pushcart Some go door to door with pushcarts, offering to take or even buy unwanted electronics. Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024 Enquirer reports described people stealing pushcarts and running wagons into the canal (where Central Parkway is today). Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024 The shopping cart icon reflects our collective journey from physical pushcarts to digital commerce. Allen Kopelman, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 On half the corners in downtown New York, there’s a hustler with a pushcart or a folding table hawking knockoff Gucci bags and Margiela shades. Heshel Rolnick, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pushcart
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pushcart
Noun
  • Historically, shedding pounds garnered an automatic congratulations (see Oprah and her wheelbarrow of fat in 1988, or Valerie Bertinelli’s Jenny Craig ads almost two decades later).
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Vendors on crowded sidewalks hawked shoes, bananas, wallets and bottles of cold water and soda from wheelbarrows.
    Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • April 19: McVeigh parks the truck outside the federal building and flees on foot to his getaway car.
    Todd Pendleton, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • While McVeigh was in custody, the FBI was compiling evidence that connected him to the scene, including a piece of the truck that blew up the building.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The next generation of MCG devices, however, are much smaller and self-contained, able to be installed next to a hospital bed or brought to patients on a cart for point-of-care use.
    Jack Hidary, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The nearby flower district is on its last legs (although the hotel nods to it’s legacy with a fresh flower cart).
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The park plans to open restaurants, trams and excursions earlier to accommodate visitors.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Hop aboard the Swamp Fox Tours’ blue-and-white tram—which departs at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday—to learn more about Georgetown’s homes, churches, and other local lore.
    Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By the time the wagon arrived at the Western District station, its sixth stop, Gray was unconscious.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In a squad, a soldier rides one horse in the lead, six horses pull the caisson wagon, and a riderless horse follows.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sandoz wheeled a roughly 250-pound condensing unit into place on a hand truck with the grace of a ballroom dancer.
    Andrew Ford, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The back doors roll up, and a crew of delivery workers begins sorting and stacking hundreds of boxes and pouches onto rolling dollies and hand trucks.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 12 May 2023

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“Pushcart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushcart. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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