mainline
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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
Given that the bulk of mainline members and leaders are elderly, a grassroots insurgency makes sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
That, combined with the demographics of the mainline, makes some success seem inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The game will launch on current-generation consoles, PC and Nintendo Switch 2, marking the first mainline Call of Duty to skip PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Meanwhile, evangelical Protestants are pulling closer to their mainline counterparts in class and education.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Still, trunk lines appear to be in better condition than the utility’s mainlines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He mainlines all of his romantic entanglements as if they were the antidote to his unresolved traumas.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
Current labor agreements ensure that freight trains on mainlines have two people — an engineer and conductor — onboard.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
Investigators said testing found that the gas lines between the home’s meter and the mainlines of the local utility, CenterPoint Energy, were in “proper working order.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
The rail operator said it had snowploughs on standby and that the east and west coast mainlines to and from England would remain open but could be subject to delays.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021
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
In 10 weeks as an editing intern, I mainlined more plays, musicals, ballets and cabaret performances than many people see in their entire lives.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2019
All of that is mainlined into her songs.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
I mean, they’re really being mainlined right into your brain.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018
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
He was mainlining applause from the public gallery.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Sheek Louch, who sounds like he’s been mainlining Ka records, has an excellent verse on “Donda.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
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
