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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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At its stand at InnoTrans, visitors could remotely operate a freight train in the Netherlands using a full-scale dashboard.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Issuing extra export quotas at this stage could send Chinese buyers back into the crude market and push up oil prices, although freight costs are now a big consideration for buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

But the Rhine plays an outsized role, carrying around two-thirds of Germany's inland waterway freight, said Puls.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

It cautioned, however, that freight rates are volatile and that the outlook is subject to a high degree of uncertainty given current and persistent geopolitical challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was the longest one he had ever seen, with almost two hundred freight cars and a locomotive at either end and a third one in the middle.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023

Pairing her with Paul, who brings a hardened soulfulness to Caleb, freights their adventure with palpable tautness.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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

Well, you're ahead of time fifteen minutes, so just sit down and behave yourself till I get those freights over yonder untangled.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

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 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

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

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

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

What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

Per the statement from the White House, "Bypassing regular air freighting routes will speed up the importation and distribution of formula and serve as an immediate support as manufacturers continue to ramp up production."

From Salon ● May 18, 2022

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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