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freight

[freyt] / freɪt /


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“This was largely the result of higher realized freight rates, and the company is effectively suggesting this remains strong” into the second half, they add.

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

Gina’s exhale is a freight train barreling through a tunnel.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

From Salon Feb. 22, 2024

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

Giving a frightened backward glance as he reached a line of freights, the ex-towerman leaped the space between two cars and disappeared from view.

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

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

Projecting individual meaning onto our favorite shows is a natural result of an emotionally freighted medium.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

“Maybe I was naive,” he said in a halting voice freighted with emotion.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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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