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mainline

[mayn-lahyn, -lahyn] / ˈmeɪnˌlaɪn, -ˈlaɪn /


VERB
inject
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The airline announced Thursday that it plans to expand its rollout of Starlink internet to its entire mainline fleet, embracing the fast wi-fi that has become a popular passenger perk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Other notable figures from the statistical release include that 11 members of the public died at mainline level crossings in the latest year, six more than the previous year.

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

Black Muslims came in many stripes, from mainline Nation of Islam to the splinter Five Percenters.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Thursday’s fracture was on a riveted steel pipe from 1916 that is part of the system of major arteries that deliver water from reservoirs and tanks to smaller distribution mainlines across Los Angeles.

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

The line was used to transport agricultural products and produce as a crucial connector to other mainlines down the Columbia River.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

Trains in England and Wales will also be badly affected, including services between London and Scotland on both the East and West Coast mainlines.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2022

But the show still went on that night, thanks to Voytko, a swing and an understudy for Marian, who mainlined the role in eight hours.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

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

“Hades,” because you can really get in the zone on that game, and they’ve got the meta-upgrade drug mainlined right to your brain: So.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2020

I mean, they’re really being mainlined right into your brain.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018

It is less a video game than mainlined anxiety, its jump-scares timed with sadistic precision and its long, shadow-splashed corridors masterpieces of unnerving light design.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2011

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

Most of the time, if you’re on Twitter, you’re doing something else or mainlining information before leaving.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2023

He was mainlining applause from the public gallery.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

VERDICT: Watching the 2021 Jets is like mainlining tryptophan.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021


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