toting

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She has donned flak jackets on ICE raids, posed toting a large gun and recorded messages urging immigrants to self-deport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

They get all kinds, from well-to-do couples toting their toy pooches in the same designer bag as their medications, to criminally neglected unhoused people.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

“It seemed pretty heavy, even without clothes in it. Still, if you’re getting picked up by a car service, toting it isn’t as much of an issue.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

But Isaac is a literature guy, toting around a paperback of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s “Blindness” to underscore that neither one of them sees their mismatch clearly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Stella’s arms felt as if she'd been toting watermelons all day—everything about her felt heavy and slow and glum.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper