freight
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“Texas agriculture and freight run on diesel,” he said in a statement relaxing state transport and fuel regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
At its stand at InnoTrans, visitors could remotely operate a freight train in the Netherlands using a full-scale dashboard.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Cortizo and I were surrounded by towers of crates as we spoke, at the end of the longest freight rail link in the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
However, it cautioned that freight rates are volatile and that given the current persistent geopolitical challenges, the outlook is subject to a high degree of uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
They had emerged from what turned out to be the black-painted metal car of a long freight train, parked or abandoned in a woodland siding.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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The duchess freights whatever products she releases with opinion and emotions, as we’ll soon see once her recently renamed, freshly launched brand As Ever gets up and running.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
At night, the carriage can rock while negotiating a bend and freights enter your dreams as their cargo thrums past but these minor intrusions authenticate a true railway experience.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2020
The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
Whereas The Bachelor freights every sidelong glance with portent, DWTS’s stumbles and heartbreaks are all edited to make the stakes feel as low as possible.
From Slate ● May 24, 2016
Here the fact is acknowledged that freights can be transported over railroads for one and one-fourth cents per ton per mile.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
Yet until now, the orchestra has never reprised this intensely thoughtful and emotionally freighted piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Can you please unpack the really freighted language in the birthright citizenship clause that is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026
But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Per the statement from the White House, "Bypassing regular air freighting routes will speed up the importation and distribution of formula and serve as an immediate support as manufacturers continue to ramp up production."
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
Besides, freighting the timber to northern mills would keep his railroad cars puffing.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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