freight
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The shipment went through a freight hub at East Midlands Airport on the way, allowing NCA and Border Force to intercept on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Robinson has been one of the leading logistics firms to employ AI to manage cargo, using fewer workers during a prolonged freight sector downturn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
On one huge video screen, colour-coded passenger and freight trains could be seen making their way along the arteries of Ukraine's vast railway network.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
At its stand at InnoTrans, visitors could remotely operate a freight train in the Netherlands using a full-scale dashboard.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Twenty-year-old Walter Merrithew was at the building nearest the wharf called Number 3 freight house, helping one of the wagon drivers load goods for delivery.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
The script freights these qualities with guilt, which Cormier ably juggles in direr moments.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024
There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023
The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
Rounders such as Johnson would hop freights if they had no money for a regular ticket.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2017
Well, you're ahead of time fifteen minutes, so just sit down and behave yourself till I get those freights over yonder untangled.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Can you please unpack the really freighted language in the birthright citizenship clause that is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026
Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
That complicated human-rights situation is freighted with Saudi Arabia’s history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
I was not just a spouse but the husband of a black woman, a freighted symbol of black love.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
And, he said, growth in freighting has slowed in the years since the pandemic boost, with warehouses seeing higher job vacancy rates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
Shannon frames each scene in his modest film with care, freighting many of his shots through doors and windows with meaning.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
One of the islands' main salmon exporters - Hiddenfjord - is also doing its bit, by ceasing the air freighting of its fresh fish.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2021
Besides, freighting the timber to northern mills would keep his railroad cars puffing.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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