transportation
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A fourth person was injured and declined transportation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Every mature transportation system is built around fully reusable vehicles. It’s the only way to reach the cost floor while scaling availability,” Stoke co-founder Andy Lapsa said in a statement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Middle East tensions have choked the production and transportation of millions of barrels of oil, causing a surge in the price of car and jet fuels, which are made from oil.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Higher domestic fuel prices likely pushed up transportation costs, ANZ Research economist Kausani Basak said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mama was in no shape for public transportation, and I felt rather shaky myself.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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The government approved the measure after pressure from business and transportations groups and non-governmental organizations, which claim extortion has increased.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
The group, which has not rolled out its proposal, is expected to focus on core infrastructure programs, such as transportations systems, at the expense of social spending.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
During their first meeting, the team called out the possible transportations options it might see: electric bikes, mo-peds and scooters, and then hoverboards, Segways and even unicycles.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2018
“Right now this thing is so big, that sometimes it blocks the entire Mississippi River, and when that happens, my phone rings off the hook with transportations companies calling,” Cross said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2015
Its object should be Freight—the rapid and vast increase of its transportations, not extra profit on the articles transported.
From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Horace Greeley
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