mainline
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The cancellations took place on mainline routes after the bugs were spotted on 22 September.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
DWP plans to replace about 45 miles of mainline, which deliver water to individual services across neighborhoods, this fiscal year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Located above a busy mainline railway station, MSG is slap bang in the beating heart of tourist and commercial Manhattan.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Technology will be rolled out across 1,400 trains on mainline nationalised services allowing them to connect to low-earth satellites, instead of mobile networks.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
More than 30% of DWP’s mainlines are more than 80 years old and at least 6% of them are considered high priority for replacement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
He mainlines all of his romantic entanglements as if they were the antidote to his unresolved traumas.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
Current labor agreements ensure that freight trains on mainlines have two people — an engineer and conductor — onboard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Investigators said testing found that the gas lines between the home’s meter and the mainlines of the local utility, CenterPoint Energy, were in “proper working order.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
The rail operator said it had snowploughs on standby and that the east and west coast mainlines to and from England would remain open but could be subject to delays.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021
But the show still went on that night, thanks to Voytko, a swing and an understudy for Marian, who mainlined the role in eight hours.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Johnson said that businesses had mainlined on low-wage imported labour for nearly 25 years and that they should now pay their workers more and invest more.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2021
And most likely from doc-chockablock behemoth Netflix, whose mainlined hits “Frye: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” and “Tiger King” have inspired a term for reveling in the story of a scam unraveled: schaden-fraud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
All of that is mainlined into her songs.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
I mean, they’re really being mainlined right into your brain.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018
The ubiquity of holiday songs also represents a rare monocultural music moment—even though listeners are spread across multiple streaming services and social-media platforms, many of them are mainlining the same tunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
In some ways, I feel like a conspiracy junkie who has relapsed, mainlining paranoia and dread.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024
Most of the time, if you’re on Twitter, you’re doing something else or mainlining information before leaving.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2023
But the story of pop music is far more often about the mainlining and then mainstreaming of frisky outsider ideas into broad palatability.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
‘Ready Player One’ feels like mainlining the VH1 show ‘I Love the ’80s.’
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
