freight
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“Twenty-five basis points here and there on rates are not going to stop the freight train that is AI,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The continuing conflict in the Middle East has added another pain point for Shein, disrupting shipping disruptions and driving up freight costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
But the Rhine plays an outsized role, carrying around two-thirds of Germany's inland waterway freight, said Puls.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
"The compression was primarily driven by a sharp spike in oil prices and freight rates amid Middle East geopolitical tensions," Xu said in its earnings reports.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
As he turned, it seemed that everything in the freight yard—horses, wagons, automobiles, railroad cars—was coming right at him on a wave of molasses.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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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
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
We rowed up and down till dark, following here and there the 240 boats whose freights attracted us, and exclaiming every moment at some new glimpse of beauty.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
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
But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
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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The heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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
What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
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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