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a considerable amount
he always has a carload of ideas for a new product launch
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Recent Examples of carload
On the evening of August 22, 1962, as de Gaulle, his wife, and his son-in-law drove out of Paris, two cars ambushed them in the suburbs with a storm of gunfire (and a carload of explosives that didn’t go off).
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Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
Moving the entirety of Ukraine’s food exports—estimated at 30 million tons of grain—would require 100 shiploads, compared with a whopping 300,000 rail carloads.
—Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2022
Without commenting on the merits, an entire carload of straphangers were terrorized by Neely before he was subdued by ex-Marine Daniel Penny and others.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024
The classified emails also include photos of suspects, seized body armor, rows of rifles, garbage bags of marijuana and carloads of methamphetamine.
—Nick Penzenstadler, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2024
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Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
Moving the entirety of Ukraine’s food exports—estimated at 30 million tons of grain—would require 100 shiploads, compared with a whopping 300,000 rail carloads.
—Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2022
Without commenting on the merits, an entire carload of straphangers were terrorized by Neely before he was subdued by ex-Marine Daniel Penny and others.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024
The classified emails also include photos of suspects, seized body armor, rows of rifles, garbage bags of marijuana and carloads of methamphetamine.
—Nick Penzenstadler, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2024
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The band and their record label added tons of live recordings, new mixes, and other special bits of content that turned the one CD into a box set–the kind that fans of the band couldn’t wait to get their hands on.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Microsoft's approach also preserves tons of screenshots, which can include an array of sensitive information — although the company has settings to turn off the feature for specific apps and websites.Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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More than a dozen Santa Clara alumni and other community leaders served as Opus Prize jurors, and 16 SCU students, faculty and staff members were ambassadors who joined on site visits to the prize finalists.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Shakira, Bad Bunny, Anitta and Karol G are among the more than two dozen artists nominated for the biggest awards of the night — record of the year, album of the year and song of the year.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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My friend gave me a whole bunch of her little girl’s clothes — such a high volume of items that some still had the tags on.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Wolk herself responded to the controversy by tweeting a bunch, naturally.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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The new council and mayor must tackle a slew of troubles for the city, which faces the largest per-capita homeless population in the county, a stark shortage of firefighters and police officers, and ongoing questions on how to balance growth and draw in business.Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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After developing and producing the cult sitcom Freaks and Geeks and directing and producing a slew of movies now considered soulful comedy classics, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40 and Funny People, among them.Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Deep water surrounded much of the area, so someone had placed sheets of wood on top of a chain link fence and balanced both on blocks of plastic foam, creating a makeshift barge that could pull piles of debris from shore to shore. Skid loaders crisscrossed the nearby sand.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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The zoo shared a video of the baby calf sniffing for food in a pile of glass across its social media accounts to celebrate her birth.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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What’s more, doing so resulted in no measurable change in fruit size or total quantity.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Also, most commercial recipes make enormous quantities and scaling them down for a home kitchen isn't always practical.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Who pays for a replacement roof often comes down to who has more bargaining power, and the inability to obtain insurance coverage has the potential to kill deals, agents report.Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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In today’s deal, North’s leap to four hearts is preemptive, and West doubles that outrage with his 23 high-card points.Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Checking Your Malware Protection Anti-Malware makes up the biggest chunk of the security score, worth 30 points.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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The three states account for 44 electoral votes, a large chunk of the 93 electoral votes that the seven battleground states make up.Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Carload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carload. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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