- present participle of load.
loading
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It was like Christmas every Wednesday afternoon as we shredded packages and stacked CDs, occasional stickers and vinyl, splitting the spoils and loading them into our computers — by hand even!
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Both benchmarks had pared gains Monday after Saudi Arabia resumed loading vessels at the Red Sea port of Yanbu via its East-West pipeline, a key export route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Saudi Aramco, the kingdom’s flagship oil company, started loading vessels at the Red Sea port of Yanbu via the pipeline on Sunday, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The samples are prepared for loading into a shoebox-sized sequencing machine made by Oxford Nanopore, which uses specialist software developed at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with hospital clinicians.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
He’s loading birds in cages into the back of the van.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Both Sidi Kerir loadings and ship-to-ship transfers likely will increase under the new Red Sea threat, particularly for Asian customers, said Dylan Mortimer, marine hull U.K. war leader at insurance broker Marsh.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Dynamic reconstruction enables low-loading catalysts to achieve high performance, offering new opportunities for the rational design of efficient catalysts while reducing reliance on high metal loadings."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
By August, loadings had fallen by about two-thirds from early 2026, Kpler estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Crude loadings have since been restricted at the pipeline, forcing Kazakhstan to curb oil production because it has limited storage capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Tell him that his steam-whistles, his anchor-droppings, and his constant loadings or unloadings give us headache.
From Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin