carloads

plural of carload
as in tons
a considerable amount he always has a carload of ideas for a new product launch

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Noun
  • Now, there are piles of them back at the house.
    Jared Weiss, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The fire is spotting ahead of itself in mulch piles and making runs across levees that are in place.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • All schools in Ireland and Northern Ireland were closed on Friday, while hundreds were also shuttered across Scotland, with Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney also warning against travel.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Having hundreds of officers out on permanent injury or sick leave, plus dozens more detailed to various specialized task forces, has exacerbated the staffing crunch.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Romania, which shares chunks of border with Ukraine, has roughly 377 main battle tanks.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Military veterans and local conservationists came out on a chilly morning to carry chunks of limestone the size of soccer balls into the bay at low tide.
    Quil Lawrence, NPR, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With catering, families can avoid the expense of purchasing and preparing large quantities of food, which can often go to waste.
    Ronny Maye, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But the mountains can’t make snow if temperatures aren’t cold enough, and natural snow has only been falling in large quantities later in the season in recent years at many resorts, according Andria Huskinson, communication and public relations manager at Solitude.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Witnesses described two men, later identified as Villanueva-Morales and 29-year-old Javier Alatorre, entering the bar and firing more than a dozen shots into the crowd of approximately 40 patrons.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • With an enrollment of over 45,000 students, FSU offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across more than a dozen colleges.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Might as well have said it after maybe a dozen others.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The department carried out a large-scale transfer from Mexico to the United States of more than two dozen alleged leaders of drug cartels.
    Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Biden administration tried and failed to block numerous tech deals, including Meta’s purchase of a small virtual reality start-up, Within.
    David McCabe, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The Biden administration tried and failed to block numerous tech deals, including Meta’s purchase of a small virtual reality start-up, Within.
    David McCabe, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Carloads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carloads. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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