transportation
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But even excluding transportation equipment, durable-goods orders were up by 0.9% last month.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Translated word for word, they become something parseable only by a bilingual transportation engineer, not by the people the projects are supposed to serve.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Jet fuel is a complex product because of its transportation, segregation and storage requirements, and the dire consequences of a potential airplane-engine malfunction.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
Most are currently absorbing the costs themselves, but further increases - for example, in food production and transportation - are likely to be passed on to consumers over time.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
When Nikolaus Otto built his first gas engine, in 1866, horses had been supplying people’s land transportation needs for nearly 6,000 years, supplemented increasingly by steam-powered railroads for several decades.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing transportation
The United States
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Africa - Introductory
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Canada - Introductory
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