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railroad

[reyl-rohd] / ˈreɪlˌroʊd /


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The $13 billion figure shows the strength of the company’s railroad, energy and manufacturing, service, and retailing units.

From Barron's Aug. 8, 2026

SpaceX, he adds, has cut the cost of reaching orbit from around $10,000-$20,000 a kilogram to about $2,000 with its Falcon 9 rocket - "they have built a railroad to space."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Mexican authorities have seized millions of gallons of contraband fuel in scores of railroad cars near the border with Texas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

The freight railroad companies said Monday their combined railroad would expand committed gateway pricing, offering fixed pricing agreements for twice as many eligible shipments.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

From that time on, Isaac lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia, then a booming tobacco, farm market, and slave-trading town that had become a center for some of the state’s first railroad lines.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Look at the internet or railroads, another argued: Each was marked by a wave of euphoria, then the eventual sorting of the winners and losers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

So Kumar, like many Indians, is looking for a government job—possibly with the railroads or the police—where regulations stipulate annual pay increases.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

But the scale of AI investment is now bigger than any nonwartime boom in history, including railroads and the dot-com bubble, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

In the 1880s, quarterly reporting by railroads and other transportation companies were common.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

On the way to work, Shay explained more about the long, flat roller coasters called railroads.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

I looked into those charges and concluded that they are unsupported, that Pangram isn’t reliable enough to serve as the basis for such accusations, and that there is a strong possibility Mia Ballard was railroaded.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Having stripped away most of the documentary’s narration and sit-down interviews with Kerr’s family and friends, the film barely explores anyone’s psychology — and Blunt’s railroaded Dawn loses her chance to speak for herself.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

Like other actors including Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino, Julia Ormond, briefly a major star in the 1990s, has alleged in a lawsuit that Weinstein railroaded her career.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 2024

But Mr Webber's mother Emma said the CPS had not consulted them, and said they had been "rushed, hastened and railroaded", while Mr Coates's son James said Calocane had "got away with murder".

From BBC Jan. 30, 2024

If I had been railroaded, the authorities would have known how I’d gotten it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But wage-earners—in textile manufacturing and railroading, to pick two examples—gained by the steady appreciation in the purchasing power of their hard-earned money.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Unlike Derry’s pubs, it welcomed everybody and also secretly provided a safe refuge for Hank as he hid from the cops intent on railroading him.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2025

“When the Mexican Revolution was going on, you had a lot of Mexican immigrants coming into these railroading hubs and centers like the Inland Empire, like San Bernardino,” Ocegueda said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2025

At its core, precision scheduled railroading aims to produce better results with less work.

From Seattle Times Apr. 26, 2024

They launched into a long discussion of their memories, both of railroading and of the Sierras.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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