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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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Conflict in the Middle East has disrupted energy and freight markets, shifted trade flows and widened regional price differentials.

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

Revenue growth was driven by market capacity constraints supporting the express and air freight units.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

When the bus ground to a stop, we were at a freight yard somewhere on the outskirts of the city.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

Here the fact is acknowledged that freights can be transported over railroads for one and one-fourth cents per ton per mile.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

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

From Slate Mar. 25, 2026

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

From Salon Dec. 11, 2025

After years apart, the band feels lighter and less freighted with expectation.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 11, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

Hie word was freighted with such seductiveness that Kaede picked up the goblet without hesitation.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

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

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

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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