pickup
Example Sentences
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He took his wife, four daughters and elderly mother -- all crammed into a pickup truck with 30 others -- and drove for three days through "backroads to avoid RSF checkpoints", he told AFP from Kosti.
From Barron's
Despite a pickup in broader deal activity this year, the backlog of companies is up from last year.
In Redding, a 74‑year‑old man died after driving his pickup truck into a flooded roadway.
From Los Angeles Times
Tom plays a few pickup basketball games during his trip but always feels at risk of fainting.
There has also been a pickup in PIKs, short for payment-in-kind, which often involves delaying interest payments the borrower would have had to make, adding it to the loan’s outstanding balance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
