mainline

Assaults on the mainline railway are recorded according to their type.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

DWP plans to replace about 45 miles of mainline, which deliver water to individual services across neighborhoods, this fiscal year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Located above a busy mainline railway station, MSG is slap bang in the beating heart of tourist and commercial Manhattan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Operation Reconquista, they call it: a cohort of conservative Generation Z Christians working to steer America’s Protestant mainline churches back to theological orthodoxy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Thursday’s break was on a riveted steel pipe from 1916 that is part of the system of major arteries that deliver water from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution mainlines across Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

"There is still no commitment to electrifying the north Wales or south Wales mainlines, something businesses consistently tell us is essential to unlocking real economic growth across the whole country."

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

He mainlines all of his romantic entanglements as if they were the antidote to his unresolved traumas.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

The line was used to transport agricultural products and produce as a crucial connector to other mainlines down the Columbia River.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Current labor agreements ensure that freight trains on mainlines have two people — an engineer and conductor — onboard.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Johnson said that businesses had mainlined on low-wage imported labour for nearly 25 years and that they should now pay their workers more and invest more.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2021

“Hades,” because you can really get in the zone on that game, and they’ve got the meta-upgrade drug mainlined right to your brain: So.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2020

We mainlined Twitter, breaking news alerts and viral hoaxes masquerading as inside information; we stared slack-jawed at politicians' news briefings.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020

In 10 weeks as an editing intern, I mainlined more plays, musicals, ballets and cabaret performances than many people see in their entire lives.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2019

It is less a video game than mainlined anxiety, its jump-scares timed with sadistic precision and its long, shadow-splashed corridors masterpieces of unnerving light design.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2011

The ubiquity of holiday songs also represents a rare monocultural music moment—even though listeners are spread across multiple streaming services and social-media platforms, many of them are mainlining the same tunes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

In some ways, I feel like a conspiracy junkie who has relapsed, mainlining paranoia and dread.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024

Sheek Louch, who sounds like he’s been mainlining Ka records, has an excellent verse on “Donda.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

‘Ready Player One’ feels like mainlining the VH1 show ‘I Love the ’80s.’

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

Youths, I am told, speak of “hopium” and “copium,” but we need a word that incorporates the never-ending mainlining of information as well as the positive or negative cast of that information.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020