- present participle of load.
loading
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Welborn recalls a client who felt financially independent after loading up on a highflying stock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
The Reuters news agency reported that the company had resumed crude oil loading at the site on Friday after an almost four-month pause due to the war in the Middle East.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
After taking a job at the Conference Board, a business research organization, he rummaged through libraries to unearth measures of railcar freight loading and trends in short staple cotton prices since the Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The same rumors that started last summer about schools loading up on transfers are circulating again this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
They were both so eager to get away from that sharecropping farm that they started loading the wagon by moonlight.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
In 2023 and 2024, freight loadings from U.S. rail connections in Canada represented an average 12% of total rail tonnage each month, but this fell to an average 10.4% in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
However, analysts at the bank led by Henri Patricot noted that within the Persian Gulf, “crude and products loadings remained extremely low.”
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
Oil giant Saudi Aramco briefly halted crude loadings following the attack.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Crude loadings at both Yanbu and Fujairah have jumped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The tail of the monoplane had a flexible trailing edge; its angle of incidence could be varied from the pilot's seat, so that perfect longitudinal balance was attained at all loadings and speeds.
From The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by Barber, H. (Horatio)
