mainline

Assaults on the mainline railway are recorded according to their type.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

DWP plans to replace about 45 miles of mainline, which deliver water to individual services across neighborhoods, this fiscal year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Located above a busy mainline railway station, MSG is slap bang in the beating heart of tourist and commercial Manhattan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

The mainline is a collection of long-established Protestant denominations: the Episcopalians, United Methodists, Presbyterians and so on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Meanwhile, evangelical Protestants are pulling closer to their mainline counterparts in class and education.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Trunk lines appear to be in better condition than the utility’s mainlines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

"There is still no commitment to electrifying the north Wales or south Wales mainlines, something businesses consistently tell us is essential to unlocking real economic growth across the whole country."

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

He mainlines all of his romantic entanglements as if they were the antidote to his unresolved traumas.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

Afterward, Healey said the agency was underestimating the blockages on Westlake, including relocation of two sewer mainlines.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Current labor agreements ensure that freight trains on mainlines have two people — an engineer and conductor — onboard.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Johnson said that businesses had mainlined on low-wage imported labour for nearly 25 years and that they should now pay their workers more and invest more.

From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2021

And most likely from doc-chockablock behemoth Netflix, whose mainlined hits “Frye: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” and “Tiger King” have inspired a term for reveling in the story of a scam unraveled: schaden-fraud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021

We mainlined Twitter, breaking news alerts and viral hoaxes masquerading as inside information; we stared slack-jawed at politicians' news briefings.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020

All of that is mainlined into her songs.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019

He mainlined fantasy, horror, science fiction and drama growing up, and started as a fanboy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2016

The ubiquity of holiday songs also represents a rare monocultural music moment—even though listeners are spread across multiple streaming services and social-media platforms, many of them are mainlining the same tunes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

In some ways, I feel like a conspiracy junkie who has relapsed, mainlining paranoia and dread.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024

Last month, she lamented that her busy campaign schedule had kept her from mainlining Amazon’s new “Rings of Power” series.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

He was mainlining applause from the public gallery.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Youths, I am told, speak of “hopium” and “copium,” but we need a word that incorporates the never-ending mainlining of information as well as the positive or negative cast of that information.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020