pickup
Example Sentences
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The increase has been fueled by hot housing markets and the rising costs of neighborhood necessities like schools, police, libraries, roads and garbage pickup.
From MarketWatch
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.
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