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In inflation-adjusted terms, the AI sector is expected to borrow more this year than US cable operators did to build out the entire internet, or than railroad companies did during the 19th-century US rail boom.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The family of prominent railroad and oil tycoon Daniel Murphy donated it after his death and the Church leased it to oil developers beginning in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

She described her parents, a railroad worker and a mother who once cleaned houses, as “Depression-era Democrats.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The company said the plant would be in eastern Iowa, and would transport iron ore from its mine to the steel mill by railroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Indeed, the railroad stop was located right across Main Street from the resort.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

The industrialists of the 19th and 20th centuries made their fortunes on new markets like oil, steel and railroads.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Often, they relate to his lifelong passions: show tunes, railroads, the big-band era, Nebraska and early Frank Sinatra performances from the 1930s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

With California’s coast getting pounded by strong waves amid a strengthening El Niño, residents and city leaders are turning to big rocks and seawalls to protect homes and keep railroads from falling into the sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Airlines and railroads had long offered their own credit cards but those were generally good only for the company that issued them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He had worked the railroads for fifteen years, making enough money to build his wife a house on a nice property of a hundred acres of land.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

The Clippers are howling in protest, vehemently rejecting the league’s conclusions and stating they’ve been railroaded by a “heavily biased investigation seeking to justify a predetermined narrative.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

They also trusted the word of McBride, who has made a name for himself nationally as an outspoken — and controversial — advocate for officers who believe they’ve been railroaded by their departments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2024

Like other actors including Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, Julia Ormond, briefly a major star in the 1990s, has alleged in a lawsuit that Weinstein railroaded her career.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

Before flying home, he requested to meet the women and apologise, which one complainant said she felt "railroaded" into attending.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024

If I had been railroaded, the authorities would have known how I’d gotten it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But wage-earners—in textile manufacturing and railroading, to pick two examples—gained by the steady appreciation in the purchasing power of their hard-earned money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Unlike Derry’s pubs, it welcomed everybody and also secretly provided a safe refuge for Hank as he hid from the cops intent on railroading him.

From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025

“When the Mexican Revolution was going on, you had a lot of Mexican immigrants coming into these railroading hubs and centers like the Inland Empire, like San Bernardino,” Ocegueda said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

At its core, precision scheduled railroading aims to produce better results with less work.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

They launched into a long discussion of their memories, both of railroading and of the Sierras.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep