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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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Avoiding tariffs and ocean freight saved money, but domestic shipping brought the total to $1,230.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Moller-Maersk raised its full-year guidance for the third time this year due to higher freight rates, resilient demand and tight capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The upgrades to the Saxmundham rail junction on the east Suffolk line were carried out over nine days, to improve the railway's reliability and support future freight services to the nuclear power station.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Farmers and manufacturers and ordinary Californians could hardly move freight or ride the rails without SP — and paid dearly for this monopoly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The men set to work uncoupling freight cars and attaching new ones onto the train.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

Pairing her with Paul, who brings a hardened soulfulness to Caleb, freights their adventure with palpable tautness.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022

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

Whereas The Bachelor freights every sidelong glance with portent, DWTS’s stumbles and heartbreaks are all edited to make the stakes feel as low as possible.

From Slate ● May 24, 2016

In some way the stationary freights had caught fire.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

TORONTO—Over the past 17 months, as President Trump has freighted Canada’s economy with several rounds of punishing tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney has often repeated the guiding maxim for his negotiations with the U.S.:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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

But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 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

The heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

Per the statement from the White House, "Bypassing regular air freighting routes will speed up the importation and distribution of formula and serve as an immediate support as manufacturers continue to ramp up production."

From Salon ● May 18, 2022

The company turned briefly to air freighting products to meet demand, but at five or six times the cost of sea freight, it cut into the company’s profits.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac


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