carful
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carfuls
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Ball is given a warning, no point taken this time but he needs to be carful in those moments.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2024
One German-Turkish university student was unloading a carful of phone charging banks.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
“You have to be carful of over-thinking it, over-analyzing it giving the players too much, and you end up not playing your best football.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
She had a carful of patients she was transporting from the meeting place to the makeshift clinic.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Byron said, “Like there was anything to keep anybody awake in this carful of squares.”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Friends texted and posted photos of their own pink-hatted planefuls, busfuls, carfuls, coming in from north, south, and west.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
Missing were the private carfuls of big spenders, the planeloads of Hollywood merry-go-rounders and the toney tipplers who have made Derby Day an uproarious Kentucky Mardi Gras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Truckloads of sets arrived from Los Angeles and Chicago; freight carfuls came from New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this duty in mind, the Emperor entered an open touring car and, followed by 29 carfuls of dignitaries, made the rounds of nearly all places key-numbered on the map.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two carfuls of tourists passed slowly, their women sitting fore, gripping the handrests.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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