mainline
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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
Given that the bulk of mainline members and leaders are elderly, a grassroots insurgency makes sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The game will launch on current-generation consoles, PC and Nintendo Switch 2, marking the first mainline Call of Duty to skip PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Black Muslims came in many stripes, from mainline Nation of Islam to the splinter Five Percenters.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Thursday’s fracture was on a riveted steel pipe from 1916 that is part of the system of major arteries that deliver water from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution mainlines across Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He mainlines all of his romantic entanglements as if they were the antidote to his unresolved traumas.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
The line was used to transport agricultural products and produce as a crucial connector to other mainlines down the Columbia River.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
Current labor agreements ensure that freight trains on mainlines have two people — an engineer and conductor — onboard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Other operators will also run some trains on the east coast and west coast mainlines.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
In 10 weeks as an editing intern, I mainlined more plays, musicals, ballets and cabaret performances than many people see in their entire lives.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2019
I mean, they’re really being mainlined right into your brain.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018
It is less a video game than mainlined anxiety, its jump-scares timed with sadistic precision and its long, shadow-splashed corridors masterpieces of unnerving light design.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2011
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
VERDICT: Watching the 2021 Jets is like mainlining tryptophan.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
‘Ready Player One’ feels like mainlining the VH1 show ‘I Love the ’80s.’
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
