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Recent Examples of deadweightThat represented 68% of the vessels when measured by deadweight, and the lowest number of tankers tracked with IG club insurance, surpassing 67% uninsured recorded in July and August.—Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 Getting rid of deadweight and dealing with unsatisfactory situations will lighten your burden and make room for investing more time in yourself and what brings you joy.—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024 Taken together, if VIPER fails to fly, the agency will have spent about $800 million to send literal deadweight to the moon instead.—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024 But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.—Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for deadweight
Lincoln returned from the cargo trip and decided to stay in New Salem, about 20 miles northwest of Springfield.
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Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
FedEx navigated through bottom-line headwinds such as the end of its air cargo contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS) last fall, resulting in a $180 million hit to operating income, Subramaniam said in the call.
Lightning All-Electric Prototype, the vehicle that famously pulled more than 1 million pounds of freight rail cars in a 2019 television commercial.
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Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Under his tenure, DOT audited Boeing 737 crashes, trucking and freight rail theft, and had ongoing investigations of Tesla and Space X, which are owned by Elon Musk, the billionaire appointed by Trump to lead the federal DOGE.
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Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Mar. 2025
Small, intentional changes — like expressing appreciation, communicating needs clearly and checking in about emotional and mental loads — can breathe new life into a relationship.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Time is another factor: Offering loads to alternate carriers can add hours to tendering.
The assessments look into vessel traffic, transit speeds, loading characteristics and more, especially as ships have gotten larger over the decades.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2025
Accessible via the left- and right-side pass-through doors, this storage garage can carry a small motorcycle, scooter, ebike or bicycles, and an available slide-out ramp helps with loading.
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