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tote

[toht] / toʊt /


VERB
carry a gun
Synonyms


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Last week he bought four items from the new collection, including a tote for his daughter.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Shoppers will also win prizes along the way, such as tote bags, pins, stickers and a free audiobook.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Visitors to the GoMA can also part with £15 to get their hands on a coned Duke of Wellington tote bag or £20 for a T-shirt.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

As the company spread across the U.S., it maintained rules for decades: Kids were allowed only with a chaperone age 25 or older, and adults could tote along just three total kids.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

There’s a tote bag at her feet that says Jefferson Middle School—the middle school one town over, where Avery’s crush, Collin, went.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Customers toted their purchases home in “Big Brown Bags.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Dancing to drums in downtown Yangon, the crowd of nationalist activists and saffron-robed monks twirled miniature national flags and toted banners denying accusations of ethnic cleansing being levelled at The Hague.

From Barron's Jan. 27, 2026

He toted Walter around the whole day, and at the end of their visit, I told him he could take Walter home if he wanted to.

From Slate Oct. 1, 2025

Queen Elizabeth II, who was in residence, was said to have looked at the guns being toted by these unexpected arrivals.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2025

To Jesse, the constant in his life was his geekhood; that was the root, the constant, the identity he toted with him no matter where he went.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Since many high school-age players can’t drive, a parent has to accept the responsibility of toting them back and forth to team activities.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

So if you’re toting around two kids and want a fun-filled day that costs less than $200, but you hate walking around museums, then say exactly that.

From MarketWatch May 19, 2026

He was Sylvester Stallone in the 1986 action movie “Cobra,” toting a machine gun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 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

Rosaleen and I brought up the rear, toting candles, too, trying to hum along, since we didn’t know the words.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd




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