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as in stagecoaches
a horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers
a museum with a large collection of beautiful, old carriages
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Recent Examples of carriages
The summer visit by the French couple was met with clear skies and beautiful sunshine, and the first view of carriages containing heads of state and Prince William and Princess Kate helping host the visitors came in streets under the castle walls.
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Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
A couple dozen of the property’s 127 guest rooms are situated within Pullman train carriages dating from the 1920s to the 1960s; all of which are parked at a one-time train station that’s now a destination full of restaurants, shopping, and events.
—Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
One of the three train carriages was decorated with ornaments inspired by šaltibarščiai soup.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2025
Gay men of New York, watch out for stray carriages on the street.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Associated with a group that included Max Jacob and Pierre Reverdy, Jean Follain was struck by a car and killed just after midnight in Paris in 1971, a brutal irony considering how many of his poems are rutted by farm carts and horse carriages and apple wagons.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
The barn complex includes six stalls with individual walkouts, two tack rooms, and space for carriages or gym equipment.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
People fled through the carriages seeking safety, with some attempting to barricade themselves in the train restrooms, said other witnesses.
—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Friends With Classic Cars recently brought the community together to host a show focusing on vintage cars and horse carriages in the rebuilding of the Brightmoor neighborhood in Detroit.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carriages
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Hochul should use her improving political fortune and growing public disdain for the president’s regressive stances to break away from Trumpian energy policies and restore New York’s clean energy leadership in the new year.—
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Landlord efforts to dangle concessions in front of prospective tenants have helped to shove effective rents lower due to the aggressive stances of property owners that hunger for leasing deals.—
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Tents, chariots and other production gear were auctioned off so the couple could pay their creditors.—
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Hannah and his team also built chariots specific to each Camp Half-Blood cabin, with a trident adorning Percy and Tyson’s (Daniel Diemer) for the Poseidon cabin and a steampunk version for the Hephaestus cabin, among others.—
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And that’s also a place where those familiar postures — the brooding cowboy, the angsty writer — start to dissolve.—
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Sachs films the pair in a variety of places and postures—sitting face to face in her living room, standing in the kitchen, lying down on her bed.—
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Design details inspired by yellow taxi cabs, subway lights, and the building’s Beaux-Arts history celebrate this bustling neighborhood that—just like W Hotels—is always evolving.—
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Living in an expensive city, surrounded by colleagues who billed a hundred hours a week and ordered cabs home at midnight, McCoy was always the poorest man in the room.—
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People incorrectly assumed others in their party held extreme views about wolves, and those assumptions in turn shaped their own attitudes toward the species.—
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The report reflects changing attitudes about health and new tools that Americans are increasingly relying upon to make meaningful improvements to their well-being.—
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The new product enters a crowded market for towable camera rigs, which have proliferated outside big box stores, strip malls and construction sites since the pandemic.—
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The annual Dakar Rally may be best known for the sandstorming, badlands-bashing trucks, buggies and motorcycles that compete within its map boundaries, but the event has also inspired some radical on- and off-road support rigs and RVs.—
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“Carriages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carriages. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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