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redline

[red-lahyn, red-lahyn] / ˈrɛdˌlaɪn, ˈrɛdˈlaɪn /




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Flirting between gears near its 8,600-rpm redline, the Z06 roars and seethes like a blast furnace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Kazakhstan's Rybakina, whose power from the baseline is among the very best when she finds her groove, continued to redline in the second set.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

A lone rider leaves the redline at Union Station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

“AI must be guided in a direction that is conducive to the progress of humanity, so there should be a redline in AI development — a red line that must not be crossed,” without elaborating.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

They were past redline now, flying at 220 miles per hour and in danger of ripping the plane’s wings off.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Back on the main stage, they redlined through “March of the Pigs” and seethed with fuzzbox rot on “Reptile.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

Weber’s métier is working in industrial corridors in redlined neighborhoods helping communities of color heal from the effects of environmental and social ills, often a lengthy and collaborative process.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2024

Recently, researchers showed that historically redlined areas have higher levels of air pollution than those that received higher ratings, and similar disparities affect many cities across the U.S.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

The earliest calls for integration in Seattle came from redlined neighborhoods such as the Central District, where the majority of Black Seattleites once resided.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

If you can get no information at all from automobile sources, you can make use—with great caution—of bicycle road maps, of the maps rather than the redlined routes.

From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy

It brings to mind not just dressing and African-American fashions, but also the historically peripatetic nature of black communities due to the oppression of Jim Crow and redlining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In the 1960s and 70s, North Lake Avenue in Altadena served as the primary east-west dividing line for redlining practices, according to the Altadena Historical Society.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

Bruins coach DeShaun Foster credited Gilmer’s early arrival for spring practice, a willingness to prove himself on special teams and a motor that requires continual monitoring by the coaching staff to prevent redlining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Insurance brokers who help affordable housing providers have been redoubling their efforts to overcome stereotypes, if not outright redlining discrimination, that historically tended to elevate rates in low-income neighborhoods.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

Although studying and writing about architecture is "more than a full-time job," Goldberger manages to keep abreast of the legal aspects of buildings as well, including tenants' rights, rent control, zoning laws and redlining.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Max Millard


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