common carrier

Example Sentences

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Oil trains would link from the proposed new Uinta Basin line to the common carrier network throughout the country, including through Colorado.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023

That was the only thing Jeanine had consumed, and it was a common carrier of Cronobacter.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022

We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

These corporations “are not engaged in indiscriminate, neutral transmission of any and all users’ speech” like a common carrier.

From Slate • May 12, 2022

Though the United States is a common carrier for carrying mails, it cannot be held liable because it is a branch of the government.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney