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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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Still, pressures are mounting as high diesel prices, freight surcharges and rising agricultural costs grind through production networks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

The company raised its full-year guidance Wednesday citing continued strength in spot freight rates and a better fourth-quarter business performance than previously expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd raised its full-year earnings guidance again due to elevated spot freight rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Avoiding tariffs and ocean freight saved money, but domestic shipping brought the total to $1,230.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Throughout the night freight trains huffed into the park.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

It was delightful to glide along over a sea of light so richly tinted, among those graceful gondolas, with their freights of gayety and beauty.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

There is no historical template for a technology that is both immensely beneficial and deeply dangerous, freely accessible, fast-evolving and freighted with geopolitical significance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

“Maybe I was naive,” he said in a halting voice freighted with emotion.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

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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