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as in to send
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
I'll have to transport the car to our new home overseas by public carrier
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2
as in to excite
to fill with great joy
was absolutely transported when she heard that her brother was getting married
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as in to entrance
to fill with overwhelming emotion (as wonder or delight)
was transported with wonder when she saw the Matterhorn for the first time
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as in to exile
to force to leave a country
the offending journalist was transported out of the country and ordered to never return
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as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
was in transports of joy after winning the championship
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as in vehicle
something used to carry goods or passengers
rising gas prices will impel more people to use public transport
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Recent Examples of transport
John Bleasdale, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
The Ice Carrier, as the bag was originally known, was designed with a double-layer bottom for transporting block ice before the rise of home freezers.
—Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
Valdivia is a transport advisor and a Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board Member.
—Midori Valdivia, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
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Sandokan’s story has an extraordinary level of escapism that transports audiences straight into the heart of the jungle.
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Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for transport
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During the attack, a small group of people immediately surrounded Rushdie and held up his legs to try and send blood to his chest.—
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The budget resolution is simply a framework that sends instructions to the various Senate committees — Homeland Security, Armed Services, Judiciary — to hammer out the details.—
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Research published in Experimental & Molecular Medicine shows that the mesolimbic dopamine system is excited by both rewarding and stressful stimuli.—
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Aurorae appear as curtains of light that trace geomagnetic field lines and vary in color depending on the species of atom being excited.—
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Eventually Faithfull found an interest in performing in plays and, entranced by Buddy Holly and Joan Baez and Simone de Beauvoir, folk music, and arty café intellectualism as well.—
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Missoni’s elegant knits have kept me entranced for over 20 years.—
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There are dream visions about a homeland from which he has long been exiled.—
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Since being exiled from Club 33, many of the members with whom the Andersons were close no longer answer their calls.—
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Those negotiations are certain to be tricky after a campaign which exposed sharp divisions over migration and how to deal with the AfD in a country where far-right politics carry a particularly strong stigma due to its Nazi past.—
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This, in Redick’s mind, would be the signal, the sign that the emotional baggage Doncic has carried since having his life and career upended via a shocking trade was lessening.—
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His face registers every chord or riff with what could be torture or ecstasy.—
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The ache at the sight of an empty mailbox was, in my memory, more than balanced out by the ecstasy at the letter that finally arrived.—
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Many Cybertruck social media groups contain examples of drivers being targeted for their vehicle of choice, while news reports show multiple dealerships have been victimized by anti-Musk vandals, USA TODAY reported.—
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Trump didn’t specify whether the measures would target specific countries or apply to all vehicles imported to the US.—
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The workers with items left behind could pay to have someone ship them home.—
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Figure, which began working with BMW last year, could potentially ship 100,0000 robots over the next four years, Adcock wrote on LinkedIn.—
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“Transport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transport. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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