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freight

[frayt] / freɪt /


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Record tanker freight rates are also adding to transportation costs, according to ING.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Erosion and slope damage have also caused problems over the years for one of California’s busiest rail corridors used by commuters via the Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink and freight operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

However, it factors in a headwind from freight rate moderation from 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

RBC expects freight forwarding to remain a high return and cash generative business, with freight rates set to be favorable into the second half of 2026 at least.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“For freight only,” he said with a grin at Mr. Ages.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

The reference, to Noah’s ark, is explicit, but Walker freights it with ugly realities.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2016

Ralph halted, just passing a line of delayed freights.

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

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

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

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

That complicated human-rights situation is freighted with Saudi Arabia’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Weariness and sorrow freighted each page of his letter.

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

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

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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