mainline
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The service is installed on more than 300 of those planes but just 18 of its mainline jets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
There had been nothing going out on the West Coast mainline and hardly any announcements, she said.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
The tax burden would be disproportionately felt by progressive mainline Protestant churches, Black evangelical churches and immigrant-majority Catholic and Protestant congregations, not to mention immigrant-majority mosques and temples.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
The 04:28 Avanti West Coast service came off the tracks on the West Coast mainline at Shap in Cumbria on Monday morning after travelling at speeds of 80mph.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
Black Muslims came in many stripes, from mainline Nation of Islam to the splinter Five Percenters.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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