wagon
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A family once tried to sneak a pet parrot into the buffet, tucking it into a wagon next to their small child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Photos shared on social media show several people aboard the wagon while emergency services attend to a child sat on the floor.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
In a Valentine’s Day quiz Chelsea posted in 2022 on Facebook, she said they met at the ranch rodeo after the chuck wagon races and went for pizza on their first date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
For the journey, he is driving a ’64 Chevy Impala station wagon with a GPS unit inside so that armchair travelers can follow his journey on the web.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
The dogs from every farm we went by raced out to see us past, and J.W., lolling over the wagon side, told them all about it.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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It would be easy to look at all of this — the card tables, homemade jingles, wagons stacked with brightly colored boxes — and see only an exceptionally cute American ritual.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The locomotive was pulling the wagons from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, to Theale, near Reading, when the derailment occurred.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
In 1916, when the 36-inch pipeline was dropped into the ground along Sunset Boulevard, cars were just beginning to compete with trolleys and horse-drawn wagons in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
“The bulk of the policymakers are going to circle the wagons and do what the economic data tell them,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Young Isaac, his mother, his father, and a handful of others were marched away, the smallest children loaded in wagons.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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