locomotive
Example Sentences
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The locomotive hauling the market higher is the surprising resilience of both the economy and the consumer presently on show.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026
The long-standing model cast CENP-E as the locomotive pulling lagging chromosomes into place.
From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025
The tentative agreement covers 300 locomotive engineers on the Soo Line property operating trains in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Merck shares have floundered this year, as the company speeds like a whistling locomotive toward the expiration of the patents protecting its megablockbuster cancer immunotherapy Keytruda.
From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025
First comes a blacked-out locomotive, bolted over with armor, exhaling a thick geyser of smoke and steam.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Vocabulary lists containing locomotive
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