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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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The deal has also faced resistance from customers and rivals who argue that it would drive up freight prices and dampen competition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

“The U.S. is now one strike decision away from having both global energy chokepoints contested simultaneously, and the market, insurance and freight consequences of that scenario are not currently priced in,” Krishnan said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Dramatic video shows a freight train in Canada surrounded by wildfire flames and workers requesting an emergency rescue as they report being "encased" in fire.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Video captured on 13 July shows a wildfire surrounding a freight train in Ontario, Canada.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

I let the rhythm of it take me back to many a dusty ride in a freight car with Gideon.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

The script freights these qualities with guilt, which Cormier ably juggles in direr moments.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2024

At night, the carriage can rock while negotiating a bend and freights enter your dreams as their cargo thrums past but these minor intrusions authenticate a true railway experience.

From The Guardian Jan. 29, 2020

The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.

From The New Yorker Feb. 8, 2019

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

This they are bound to furnish, and also to do the ordinary carrying of freights, for a reasonable compensation.

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

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

The latest numbers were slightly improved from a previous reading freighted by government shutdown disruptions, but barely.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 8, 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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2022

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

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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