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
Operation Reconquista, they call it: a cohort of conservative Generation Z Christians working to steer America’s Protestant mainline churches back to theological orthodoxy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The news has sparked excitement and discussion among fans, particularly around the next mainline entry starring a woman.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
Like many other evangelicals, some members attend churches that adhere to evangelical doctrine but that remain affiliated with mainline denominations.
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
Afterward, Healey said the agency was underestimating the blockages on Westlake, including relocation of two sewer mainlines.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 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
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
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
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
‘Ready Player One’ feels like mainlining the VH1 show ‘I Love the ’80s.’
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
She has been riding out the pandemic in a tiny village on an Irish mountaintop, watching murder shows, buying fairy-garden trinkets online and mainlining American news on CNN.
From New York Times ● May 18, 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
