freight
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The company raised its full-year guidance Wednesday citing continued strength in spot freight rates and a better fourth-quarter business performance than previously expected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
However, it cautioned that freight rates are volatile and that given current persistent geopolitical challenges, the forecast is subject to a considerable degree of uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Avoiding tariffs and ocean freight saved money, but domestic shipping brought the total to $1,230.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
The company cautioned that its forecast is subject to uncertainty due to volatile freight rates and persistent geopolitical challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
He heard the engines puffing and snorting by the roundhouse and the crash of freight cars being assembled.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
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
Ralph halted, just passing a line of delayed freights.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman
Can you please unpack the really freighted language in the birthright citizenship clause that is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 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
“This, in 1865, was particularly freighted language,” Lepore observes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
“Maybe I was naive,” he said in a halting voice freighted with emotion.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
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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