- present participle of load.
loading
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The deterioration “is due to concrete fatigue caused by heavy traffic loading, as well as environmental deterioration due to age and the marine environment,” according to the Caltrans project website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
Now, it's more a matter of getting the decisions right, in terms of loading and freshening the legs.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
But I also don’t think loading the dishwasher after making dinner is an especially onerous price to pay for enjoying somebody else’s kitchen.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Primorsk -- which has been hit by Ukrainian drones this year -- is Russia's main oil loading port in the Baltic Sea, in the Leningrad region near Finland.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
He was a powder monkey, which meant it was his job to rush heavy bags of explosive gunpowder to the men loading the cannons.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
Crude futures fell as the supply fears fueled by the outage of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline eased, and oil continued to make it through the Strait of Hormuz via ship-to-ship loadings and dark transits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Saudi Arabia is shifting crude loadings away from its out-of-service Yanbu port, while barrels continue to flow through the Strait of Hormuz under U.S. protection and some Saudi flows have resumed, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Both Sidi Kerir loadings and ship-to-ship transfers likely will increase under the new Red Sea threat, particularly for Asian customers, said Dylan Mortimer, marine hull U.K. war leader at insurance broker Marsh.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Dynamic reconstruction enables low-loading catalysts to achieve high performance, offering new opportunities for the rational design of efficient catalysts while reducing reliance on high metal loadings."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Men in the line of file closers do not execute loadings and firings.
From The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training by Olin Oglesby Ellis
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