pickup
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The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Sixty-two miles east of Tuskegee is the rural outpost of Eufaula, where pickup trucks haul fishing boats to the muddy banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
While tech now accounts for nearly 34% of S&P 500 profits — certainly an outsize share — companies across the board are seeing a pickup.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Many readers caught my recent gaffe when I asked, hypothetically, what if Rivian’s or Tesla’s first model had been a pickup?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Ms. Griegson’s orange pickup was parked on the old dirt road at the base of the fir tree.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
But Fiat thinks this is where it can find a niche, even in a country where big pickups and SUVs rule the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Ford recalled up to 1.39 million F-150 pickups in April over the risk of unexpected downshifting that can lead to a loss of vehicle control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In 2025, the Maverick and Santa Cruz represented only 180,550 of the 3.1 million pickups sold in the U.S., according to Motor Intelligence data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The rest is gated behind driverless testing later this year, paid passenger pickups before year’s end and expansion through 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
A four-wheeler, Shawn explained, is what big rigs call cars and pickups.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
