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
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
Their raw material was the hardwood bush; their factory the saw mill; their common carrier the Yankee schooner.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus
