transport
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The first minister said he had confidence in his transport secretary, who "recognised that he should have been across an issue to be in front of the transport committee and he remedied that right away".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Find insight on United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and more in the latest Market Talks covering the auto and transport sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The prosecutor, himself the target of sanctions, said they crippled daily life -- he was unable to book transport, hotels, or conduct banking operations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
A "ministerial engagement briefing" issued ahead of the transport committee's meeting on 9 September showed two emails sent to Flynn at 08:48 and 09:04.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
All of them were looking up toward the north where the transport plane would come; the plane bearing the father who had flown off an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean for a year.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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It transports water across more than 700 miles with a series of reservoirs, aqueducts, pipelines and pumping plants from Northern California to Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
A transmission line that transports, say, wind power to Mississippi from Iowa would help wind farms in Iowa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Ineos operates the Forties pipeline which transports about 30% of the UK's North Sea oil.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Thornock said Shasta Community Health has patients who travel more than an hour to get care and provides a program that transports them to health facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The designs for Orion, Daedalus and the Bussard Ramjet are probably farther from the actual interstellar spacecraft we will one day build than Leonardo’s models are from today’s supersonic transports.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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She was transported to hospital in critical condition but later regained consciousness, with her lawyers saying this week that she was walking around but in a "foggy" mental state.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
At the time, it was unclear whose belongings were being transported.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Treasury Department sanctioned 17 vessels it said were part of Iran’s remaining shadow fleet and had transported millions of barrels of Iranian crude, petroleum and petrochemical products to markets in South and East Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That finding ruled out the possibility that finished pottery had been manufactured in the Mississippian heartland and transported south through trade.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
I myself was injured as well, though not as gravely, and we are going to be transported to New Orleans where we will be treated.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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Gerjon Premtaj was transporting frozen vegetables from Mexico to Pennsylvania, and sees firsthand why diesel prices show up in grocery costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Now dad and mom, who have been transporting them around for years in club softball, will have to begin looking for the cheapest flights to Tallahassee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It was unclear if it was transporting Pike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Diesel primarily fuels commercial vehicles in the US – such as freight trucks, farm machinery, and cargo trains – which are used for transporting goods and construction.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The cargo ship had been transporting hundreds of them before it was swept up in the storm.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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