freight
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Early cracks are already appearing in categories with short supply chains, where perishable goods can’t wait out freight swings in cold storage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Still, pressures are mounting as high diesel prices, freight surcharges and rising agricultural costs grind through production networks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
Container shipping operators have benefited from higher freight rates this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Florida heard the faint wail of the freight train as it wound its way through the distant hills, and she pulled the quilt up close to her face.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023
Pairing her with Paul, who brings a hardened soulfulness to Caleb, freights their adventure with palpable tautness.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022
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
In some way the stationary freights had caught fire.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
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
Can you please unpack the really freighted language in the birthright citizenship clause that is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026
After years apart, the band feels lighter and less freighted with expectation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
That complicated human-rights situation is freighted with Saudi Arabia’s history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Hie word was freighted with such seductiveness that Kaede picked up the goblet without hesitation.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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
One of the islands' main salmon exporters - Hiddenfjord - is also doing its bit, by ceasing the air freighting of its fresh fish.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2021
Besides, freighting the timber to northern mills would keep his railroad cars puffing.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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