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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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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

Continued threats to shipping in the Persian Gulf have pushed freight and insurance costs sharply higher, while global onshore oil inventories are near their lowest levels in at least a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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

Robinson Worldwide executives pushed back on analyst concerns that its acquisition of rival freight broker RXO could create operational overlap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“For freight only,” he said with a grin at Mr. Ages.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

The reference, to Noah’s ark, is explicit, but Walker freights it with ugly realities.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2016

Giving a frightened backward glance as he reached a line of freights, the ex-towerman leaped the space between two cars and disappeared from view.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

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

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

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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