as in stagecoaches
a vehicle with two wheels that was pulled by horses and was raced and used in battle in ancient times
a chariot race
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Recent Examples of chariots
Tents, chariots and other production gear were auctioned off so the couple could pay their creditors.
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Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2025
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.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025
These empires managed to encode their folkloric art into everyday realities through the curation of their imagery, a comic-strip like style, refined and easy to replicate, while heavily coded with elements partial to those empires’ realities, such as papyrus, chariots, and images of the afterlife.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
Historian-folklorist Adrienne Mayor reminds us that the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata already envision mechanical warriors and self-moving chariots forged by the engineer-god Viśvakarma.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chariots
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Edison athletic director Rich Boyce is on the basketball coaches advisory committee.—
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Silverfield visited Gilbert's high school during the recruiting process, which isn't the norm for head coaches with kickers.—
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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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In North Carolina, only 29% of independent stages identified themselves as profitable in 2024, according to a report from the National Independent Venues Association.—
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The festival is expected to host more than 50,000 people each day of the event, with multiple stages in place for performances.—
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“Chariots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chariots. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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