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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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Stock rose after the shipping group raised its full-year guidance for the second time in less than three months, citing higher freight rates and strong demand in Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Christoph Seitz, global vice president of finished vehicles for DP World, a Dubai-based freight forwarder, said some Western automakers were skeptical of putting cars in boxes, but Chinese automakers didn’t flinch.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 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

Florida heard the faint wail of the freight train as it wound its way through the distant hills, and she pulled the quilt up close to her face.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

The script freights these qualities with guilt, which Cormier ably juggles in direr moments.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2024

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

The delayed freights set up a piping call for service.

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

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

It will make for a fascinating contest - and one which will be freighted with meaning and significance for Emery.

From BBC Mar. 12, 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

Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.

From Washington Post Feb. 14, 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

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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