redline
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What only seems familiar: Powering out of a slow corner with the pedal pinned, the car pulling its guts out, stretching for the redline, revs quavering at the upshifts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Kazakhstan's Rybakina, whose power from the baseline is among the very best when she finds her groove, continued to redline in the second set.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025
A lone rider leaves the redline at Union Station.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
“AI must be guided in a direction that is conducive to the progress of humanity, so there should be a redline in AI development — a red line that must not be crossed,” without elaborating.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
They were past redline now, flying at 220 miles per hour and in danger of ripping the plane’s wings off.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Weber’s métier is working in industrial corridors in redlined neighborhoods helping communities of color heal from the effects of environmental and social ills, often a lengthy and collaborative process.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
The researchers also investigated the possible sources of the NO2 and PM2.5 emissions affecting the previously redlined areas.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
Historically redlined nonwhite communities, such as Boyle Heights, have less tree canopy and greater housing density than greenlined neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
The earliest calls for integration in Seattle came from redlined neighborhoods such as the Central District, where the majority of Black Seattleites once resided.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023
If you can get no information at all from automobile sources, you can make use—with great caution—of bicycle road maps, of the maps rather than the redlined routes.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
The markup process in workflows such as contract review and negotiation, which takes a form known as redlining, can differ widely from one partner or senior attorney to another, according to Drumright.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It brings to mind not just dressing and African-American fashions, but also the historically peripatetic nature of black communities due to the oppression of Jim Crow and redlining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Insurance brokers who help affordable housing providers have been redoubling their efforts to overcome stereotypes, if not outright redlining discrimination, that historically tended to elevate rates in low-income neighborhoods.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
I was saddened to see that the Wing Luke Museum exhibit “Confronting Hate Together,” a collaboration between different communities targeted by redlining, has been closed because of a staff walkout.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
He leaned forward to hunch over his desk, and ignoring Scott, he went back to redlining another writer's story.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau
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