freight
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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
Union Pacific’s UNP -0.69%decrease; red down pointing triangle chief executive may have tanked his own deal, a $71.5 billion plan to create a transcontinental railroad that he touted as the future of freight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Resilient Gulf exports, easing freight costs and a softer physical market have helped too.
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
They had emerged from what turned out to be the black-painted metal car of a long freight train, parked or abandoned in a woodland siding.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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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
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
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
Yet until now, the orchestra has never reprised this intensely thoughtful and emotionally freighted piece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
Projecting individual meaning onto our favorite shows is a natural result of an emotionally freighted medium.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025
After years apart, the band feels lighter and less freighted with expectation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
Just because Lena was nice in physics class doesn’t mean she should be freighted with this, or would know what to do.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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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
Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
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
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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