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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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Resilient Gulf exports, easing freight costs and a softer physical market have helped too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

There was a strong quarter-on-quarter improvement on freight rates, while volumes declined by 1% on year, which is a similar development to its Gemini shipping network alliance partner Maersk, the bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The average per-mile spot-market rate to move dry-van truckload freight in October, the highest average since February 2022, even as fuel costs eased slightly, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

“Multiple signs point to a truck freight market that probably will be considerably stronger over the next few quarters than we had previously forecast.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Olmsted in particular felt the pressure but also felt hobbled by the persistent delays in installation of exhibits and the damage done by the repeated comings and goings of drays and freight cars.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The script freights these qualities with guilt, which Cormier ably juggles in direr moments.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2024

There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023

The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

Rounders such as Johnson would hop freights if they had no money for a regular ticket.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2017

However abundant may be the crops, unless a market can be reached without a sacrifice of one-half the product in the shape of freights and commissions the husbandman will be impoverished.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Yet until now, the orchestra has never reprised this intensely thoughtful and emotionally freighted piece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Just because Lena was nice in physics class doesn’t mean she should be freighted with this, or would know what to do.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

The heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

Shannon frames each scene in his modest film with care, freighting many of his shots through doors and windows with meaning.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023

Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac


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