lug
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Most people would vouch for specific items, such as a spare tire or a lug wrench, if they had limited choices on what to keep in their car every day.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
They then lug heavy loads back home, spreading the seaweed out on the ground and snipping off residue.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Encampment residents lug their bags onto a bus and head to their destinations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
Many people over the years have recommended that I get an e-reader so I don’t have to lug around books in my suitcase.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2026
Lena, Hannah, and I lug our cardboard there after the last bell.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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Every morning, he lugs a five-gallon water tank into his trailer, and he eats lunch with a group of other founders on the site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Sergei Loznitsa’s Stalin-era drama “Two Prosecutors” lugs its own protagonist along that exact same journey; it’s affixed to cynicism like a train on a track.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
The lugs and heroes and bums all change, but not the narrative.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
Infrastructure also plays a role, with leaks plaguing the network that lugs water up to and across Mexico's high-altitude capital.
From Reuters ● Apr. 27, 2023
Zayd gets up, runs to get Jamal Mamoo’s old book from the family room, and lugs it to the table.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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But he grew especially animated when we talked about the small wooden end table we had lugged outside to the backyard for the interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
In the same central train stations of that city, old women then sold carrots and beets from cardboard boxes they had lugged from their country homes.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
Potatoes would arrive in huge wooden crates and have to be lugged up from the cellar.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
One woman in a nightgown lugged around her own green shutters, cosplaying as a character in the ride who shouts to a man named Carlos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
Before I could argue, Clarisse picked up Annabeth like a sack of flour and lugged her down to the beach.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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Groups of all ages converged on the city centre to the sound of drums and guitars, with hardy pilgrims lugging rucksacks and camping material on their backs.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
On a recent morning, out-of-work factory hands, some lugging suitcases, wandered along a street where a cluster of hiring agencies advertised what jobs were still available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Picture, said Hutchcraft, laborers going up and down the rows with bags on their shoulders, picking orange fruit and filling them, and then lugging the bags to tubs at the ends of rows.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
She remembered trailing behind her grandmother cutting roses in her garden, lugging bucketfuls of flowers and inhaling the sweetness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
I’m still lugging Olga’s laptop in my backpack, so she doesn’t know I have it, but that doesn’t even seem to matter much anymore.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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