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Investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office have carted away 71 looted artifacts from White’s home in the past two years, though they have not suggested that she or her husband knowingly bought stolen antiquities.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2023

Thieves and urban explorers have carted off polka-dot mushrooms, a pair of cement lions and, most hurtfully, pieces of the golden-hued path that runs through the park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2015

City officials say they have carted off well more than a third of the debris.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2011

Wednesday, still laden with the £21m bank debts they have carted around the Championship and League One for a decade since they were relegated from the Premier League in 2000, say they will not implode.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2010

Cartmen charged wildly and exorbitantly—some having to pay as high as fifty dollars to have carted away a cartload of stuff.

From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George