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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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Moller-Maersk rose 10% to $14.67 after the Danish freight line raised its full-year growth projections for the second time in recent months, citing higher freight rates and strong demand in Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The ocean unit saw a 23% jump in revenue to $2 billion, supported by higher freight rates and volume growth of 4.1%, the shipping group said.

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

I park behind Harpy’s Burgers & Dogs, cut across the drive-thru, and ring the freight doorbell.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

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

However abundant may be the crops, unless a market can be reached without a sacrifice of one-half the product in the shape of freights and commissions the husbandman will be impoverished.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

The fruit is pre-cooled for five hours before being packed and transported in refrigerated vans and then stored in cold rooms before being air freighted.

From BBC May 25, 2026

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

From Slate Mar. 25, 2026

The latest numbers were slightly improved from a previous reading freighted by government shutdown disruptions, but barely.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 8, 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

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

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

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

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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