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Independent truck drivers are being squeezed because they get paid by the load, regardless of gas prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
In response to Palmer withdrawing from England's squad for "load management", Tuchel said the forward "misses too many opportunities", external .
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Ingram, the centerpiece of the Leonard trade, is a solid three-level scorer and will shoulder much of the offensive load alongside Garland — when healthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
If a dish isn’t well-made, diners will chuck it and load their plates with other food, breaking the tricky math of unlimited meals for one set price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
I load my arms with a few more pieces of wood, then turn and walk back through the snow to our cabin.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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The following breakdown showing the Boeing 737 MAX’s speed, angles and G-force loads is based on second-by-second satellite tracking data from Flightradar24.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
You may be wondering just what kind of company would be so willing to lavish the resources required for a full-scale New York City musical, accompanied by loads of free merch.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
After the auction, Sonam Drolma loads her haul—more than 200 kilograms of the fungus—into the back of her GAC Trumpchi SUV, piled so high she can hardly see the traffic behind her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"You find bargains, you buy the bargains, you end up with loads of bargains and you're a hoarder," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Sergio loads two boxes of plantains into the back of the pickup.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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Major U.S. carriers including Southwest and United told Boeing they didn’t want new MAX jets loaded with the flawed software, and instead requested an earlier version of it, the Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
And with two out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the fourth inning, he appeared to have walked again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Anna Gibbs suggests that the song could be a riff on the loaded history of this term.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
A decline in depth of Gatún Lake—the main reservoir for the canal and the artificial lake that carries ships for about 20 miles of their transit across—means ships can’t go through fully loaded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
“The convicted are loaded onto small boats here,” said Irian, “and sent on alone. This is where we switch boats.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Both benchmarks had pared gains Monday after Saudi Arabia resumed loading vessels at the Red Sea port of Yanbu via its East-West pipeline, a key export route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The samples are prepared for loading into a shoebox-sized sequencing machine made by Oxford Nanopore, which uses specialist software developed at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with hospital clinicians.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
On a Saturday in late September 2025, the 40-year-old mother of four was loading crates of grapes onto a forklift in a Fresno County field.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
“We are definitely seeing Saudi loading more crude out of Ras Tanura and shuttling it through,” said Richard Matthews, director of consulting and research at shipbroker E.A.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
All the other buses are loading up except for us.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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