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
Is there any scope to speed up the delivery of new stations along the south Wales mainline, the first of which aren't projected to get underway until 2029?
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
In 2026, the railway is used by regular passenger services, commuters, steam engines and even mainline trains travelling between London and Glasgow when a diversion is required.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Of a student body of 5,700, about 400 participate in one of three evangelical student groups—more than the number of active mainline Protestants, the campus chaplain says.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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
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
Power had been restored by Wednesday, but water and sewer mainlines close to the abandoned school were damaged by debris, said John Nichols, director of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s Rural Utility Management Services.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 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
“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
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
Sheek Louch, who sounds like he’s been mainlining Ka records, has an excellent verse on “Donda.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
‘Ready Player One’ feels like mainlining the VH1 show ‘I Love the ’80s.’
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 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
