freight
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Stock rose after the shipping group raised its full-year guidance for the second time in less than three months, citing higher freight rates and strong demand in Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
Beyond semiconductors, GM and other automakers have wrestled with supplier bankruptcies, logistics delays across rail and freight networks and volatile raw-material pricing that have strained the industry’s parts network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The conspiracy extends to freight, logistics and fuel companies on the U.S. side, authorities say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
She looked down at the disorderly little pile of handbag freight on the tablecloth.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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The duchess freights whatever products she releases with opinion and emotions, as we’ll soon see once her recently renamed, freshly launched brand As Ever gets up and running.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023
At night, the carriage can rock while negotiating a bend and freights enter your dreams as their cargo thrums past but these minor intrusions authenticate a true railway experience.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2020
The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
The real cause of complaint is the uniformly exorbitant rates charged for carrying freights, in connection with the present warehouse and elevator system.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 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
Kevan Harris, an associate professor of sociology at UCLA, said that any U.S. involvement in a military conflict with Iran is freighted with meaning, and has long been the subject of hand-wringing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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
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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
The company turned briefly to air freighting products to meet demand, but at five or six times the cost of sea freight, it cut into the company’s profits.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
Although he no longer ran a freighting business full-time, he still moved some goods and welcomed my assistance.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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