toting

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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

Her youngest son, 4-year-old Khian-khian, is too small to carry much, but insists on toting his best friend, a stuffed toy duck, Yaya.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2025

But Isaac is a literature guy, toting around a paperback of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s “Blindness” to underscore that neither one of them sees their mismatch clearly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

Late Thursday afternoon, Elon Musk appeared at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in sunglasses and toting a shiny chainsaw, being weird.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

A week later, as I’m hiking up the front steps to school, I realize I haven’t seen that nanny toting backpacks for a while.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein