common carrier
Example Sentences
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As professor Eugene Volokh, one of the originators of the common carrier analogy, explains, what separates entities such as newspapers from entities such as phone companies is whether they produce a “coherent speech product.”
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2024
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
He then ran through an extended analogy in which Verizon listened to every phone call and cut off any pro-LGBT conversation, ignoring interjections that Twitter simply isn’t a common carrier and the comparison doesn’t apply.
From The Verge • May 13, 2022
On this trip we chose the middle course, and walked, while Billy was our common carrier.
From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer
