freight

The boom has pushed ocean freight rates for cars to double their prepandemic levels, Enger said.

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

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

Mama trying to get Father to back off was like a daffodil standing in the path of a freight train.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

The reference, to Noah’s ark, is explicit, but Walker freights it with ugly realities.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2016

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

The canal promised to take freights at half the price charged by the Navigation Company.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

Dramatists are more cognizant than ever of the sociopolitical import of these contradictions and they’ve been chronicling the way this historically freighted baggage emerges in the drama of everyday life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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

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

Weariness and sorrow freighted each page of his letter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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