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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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Conflict in the Middle East has disrupted energy and freight markets, shifted trade flows and widened regional price differentials.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

All it takes to understand how he’s been turning himself into a freight train is seeing his time in the 100 meters on the track team in the spring.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

The retailer is using tariff refunds to help offset those discounts and absorb elevated freight costs, Barton said, declining to share the amount the company has received.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

The conspiracy extends to freight, logistics and fuel companies on the U.S. side, authorities say.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Mary Alice and I watched them as they stood in the open doors of the freight cars.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

From Slate Jul. 11, 2023

Although it initially freights our empathy scale to favor Gauthier's side, the story humanizes all parties as it progresses.

From Salon Feb. 3, 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

Two men came running towards the freights and along them till they reached the locomotive.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

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

From Slate Mar. 25, 2026

Projecting individual meaning onto our favorite shows is a natural result of an emotionally freighted medium.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

That complicated human-rights situation is freighted with Saudi Arabia’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

But the Nigerien connection remained significant and freighted with a degree of political and perhaps even cultural weight.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2025

I was not just a spouse but the husband of a black woman, a freighted symbol of black love.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

And, he said, growth in freighting has slowed in the years since the pandemic boost, with warehouses seeing higher job vacancy rates.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 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

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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