wagon
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“A lot of women can relate to this idea that they’ve hitched their wagon to something,” she says, “and they’re trying to figure out if they picked the right wagon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Later, as we prepare to leave for the shoot, he clocks my car, a rare station wagon, and dubs it “spec-TAC-u-lar.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“If you can hitch your wagon to his horse,” Manson said, “who cares how long it takes?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Photos shared on social media show several people aboard the wagon while emergency services attend to a child sat on the floor.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Father sways as the wagon rolls over bumpy ground.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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The options: Circle the wagons or circle the drain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It would be easy to look at all of this — the card tables, homemade jingles, wagons stacked with brightly colored boxes — and see only an exceptionally cute American ritual.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The locomotive was pulling the wagons from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, to Theale, near Reading, when the derailment occurred.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Lastly, a growing crowd of car enthusiasts is collecting vehicles that are remarkably normal—think Ford Tauruses, Honda Civics and Buick station wagons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
An acre of wagons drew up by the depot.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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