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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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The analysts add that a large order book for the sector could have an impact on freight rates.

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

A freight plane also hit an unidentified flying object and sustained minor damage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

If the potato was symbolic of the Meecham family’s flight from Ireland, then the freight train was the lucky talisman of their redemption in the new world.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

Whereas The Bachelor freights every sidelong glance with portent, DWTS’s stumbles and heartbreaks are all edited to make the stakes feel as low as possible.

From Slate May 24, 2016

Ralph walked down the short line of freights, casually inspecting the cars.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

The assertion that Asian Americans and other nonwhite immigrants don’t “assimilate”—a freighted term, to be sure—is both easy and hard to refute.

From Slate May 26, 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

“This, in 1865, was particularly freighted language,” Lepore observes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 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

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

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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