HAULED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

hauled

verb

past tense of haul

as in pulled

to cause to follow by applying steady force on a pair of strong oxen hauled the plow

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as in carried

to support and take from one place to another a vast army of trucks haul produce across America every day

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Recent Examples of hauled Every chip and solar panel has to be hauled into orbit, and every answer those chips produce has to come back down. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026 In a humiliating ritual, the assistant manager was marched out the door, hauled downtown for an interrogation, and accused of a despicable crime. — Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 For one, the garage side-door was hauled into court to show the jury. — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026 Few medications have been sued, petitioned against, and unnecessarily hauled before Congress as often as this one has. — Julie F. Kay, STAT, 25 Sep. 2026 The contents were hauled to a local landfill and soon were buried under thousands of tons of garbage. — Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Several Panthers players made their biggest plays of the young season so far, including wide receiver Xavier Legette, who got open on a deep ball and hauled it in for a 55-yard catch. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 20 Sep. 2026 The branches and logs are then ground up and hauled out of town. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 After crash landing on the dark world directly onto the homing beacon, EO and his crazy crew are apprehended by a gang of warrior henchmen and hauled into the throne room to face the wicked alien ruler who is imprisoned in anger and hate. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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Our shopping editors have done the wandering for you and pulled the furniture deals worth acting on before midnight, with some marked down by more than 50%.

— Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2026
Nick Pivetta yielded two runs and five hits while pitching into the fifth for the Padres, and Dustin May got pulled abruptly with a 1-0 count on Bogaerts and a runner aboard in the fourth.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of pulled

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Students sitting with arms linked at the elbows could only see in shards through a picket of shin guards, restricting their view of the area where classmates and roommates were dragged one by one and zip-tied face down on the spring grass.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
As Findley dragged the driver from the truck, Deputy Chase Blatt, driving north on I-35, saw the fire and the driver being pulled from the truck.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of dragged

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Treasury said Caspian had transported IRGC personnel and weapons to Syria and said Meraj had ferried illicit cargo, including weapons, to the Syrian government.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
The defunct Amtrak line, which ran more than 2,600 miles between Seattle and Chicago, ferried passengers to stops in Boise, Pocatello and Salt Lake City, winding along tracks that still carve through Idaho’s Snake River Plain today.

— Rose Evans September 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of ferried

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At the Irish Rep, director Ciarán O’Reilly has brought O’Neill’s expressionist howl back for a swift, sturdy, smaller-scale revival that now feels unnervingly on-the-pulse.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
For 70 years, the festival has brought really the best of the year in cinema to audiences.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of brought

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The department’s deputy superintendent of operations, Abel Guillén, sent an email to staff last Friday that one live bedbug and five dead ones were found in room 3506.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Blues defenseman Brandon Carlo got a game misconduct for a kneeing penalty early in the third period that sent top-line center Hintz, in his first game since March 6, down to the ice while grabbing at his left knee.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

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