railroad
Example Sentences
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Abel said that he plans to leave the CEOs of Berkshire’s companies, which range from railroads to footwear, largely alone to manage their businesses as Buffett had.
But when the New York & Erie Railroad created the first business org chart in the 1850s, capturing the complexity of the railroad’s signaling and communications, it resembled a tree.
Their spacious home served as an underground railroad station assisting enslaved men, women, and children escaping from southern states into Canada.
From Literature
Compared with such past buildouts as America’s railroads, data centers do little for local economies.
From Barron's
“Grandpa,” I said, “if those monkeys are the ones that got away from the circus train, how do you suppose they got way over here? It’s eight miles from our place over to the railroad.”
From Literature
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