as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily
the big man barged into the room
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Recent Examples of barge
Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
The pair argues before Ben barges into the Oscar nominee’s dressing room.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
Video taken from shore showed salvage workers guiding it gently to the deck of a barge.
—Karina Tsui, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
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Verb
Neely barged onto the train, threw his jacket on the floor, raised his fists and started making death threats, according to witnesses.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
The pair argues before Ben barges into the Oscar nominee’s dressing room.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
An American Airlines plane takes off as a salvage barge with a crane is positioned near the crash site along the Potomac River after a passenger jet collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
Video taken from shore showed salvage workers guiding it gently to the deck of a barge.
—Karina Tsui, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
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Verb
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The plan involved shuffling around existing crew assignments to free up two of the four seats on a SpaceX capsule that launched in late September, so that Wilmore and Williams could occupy the seats on the return trip.—
Denise Chow,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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For all of the conversation late last year analyzing how quickly Sporting KC might be able to shuffle the chairs — or even Vermes praising the way his team played Wednesday — a swap at striker, a swap in the mentality at striker, transcends everything else.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The measures quickly disrupted the flow of sanctioned Russian oil to China and India, with millions of barrels now left floating on tankers as few want to risk American enforcement actions.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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The vessels in question are not modern, but rather are primarily aging fuel tankers.—
Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Warren’s deep, husky voice frees himself from the blame of an unhealthy relationship over a stomping piano beat.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
21 Jan. 2025
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Boston stomped the competition last season en route to winning their record 18th NBA championship.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Infected rats likely brought the disease from steamships to the shore.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Fitzcarraldo Year: 1982 Runtime: 2h 37m Director: Werner Herzog Werner Herzog set out to make a movie about a man who was insane enough to try and move a steamship over land from one river to another and Herzog himself was insane enough to actually try and replicate it.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
27 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Those concerns came to a head during Biden's debate against now-President Donald Trump in June, when Biden sounded hoarse and appeared to stumble through several answers.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, the Indian stock market has stumbled recently, with the BSE 500 shedding 19% from its recent peak last September—this after climbing 14.8% in 2024 and 25.1% in 2023.—
Garth Friesen,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Don’t wait for late-arriving Easter to fire the starting gun for spring: April 1 is a good excuse to slough off the doldrums of winter and start exploring again.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
7 Feb. 2025
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And last but not least, the Clarify collection — which has Clarifying Shampoo, Scalp Serum and Scalp Scrub — is all about showing love to your scalp and sloughing off the day.—
Hedy Phillips,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Many of these come with steamers or colanders for draining pasta water.—
BestReviews,
The Mercury News,
12 Feb. 2025
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The steamer has yet to confirm a release date for KPopped.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Barge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barge. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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