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freighter

[frey-ter] / ˈfreɪ tər /


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A headlong drive for efficiency cut the average time needed to assemble a “Liberty Ship” freighter from around eight months shortly after Pearl Harbor to barely one month by 1945.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

The MD-11F freighter operated by UPS, crashed after one of its engines separated from the wing as it was preparing to take off from Louisville.

From BBC Jan. 15, 2026

Consider the March 1942 sinking of the British freighter Induna.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 2, 2026

In one operation about 35 nautical miles from the small island of Gavdos, off Crete, a coastguard vessel, a Danish freighter and a helicopter took 365 people off a fishing boat, according to the agency.

From Barron's Dec. 26, 2025

Miss Trixie was watching a freighter from Monrovia depart with a dockful of International Harvester tractors.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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