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Recent Examples of tonnage
To accommodate four catapults, the ship will need to be larger than the Fujian, matching American tonnage and powered by a nuclear reactor.
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Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2025
Waste Management sought approval to increase its tonnage capacity to take in wildfire debris anyway, which Riverside County officials granted the next day.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
To accommodate debris removal, the county last week approved a waiver extending the landfill’s hours of operation and increasing the daily tonnage limit from 3,500 tons per day to 5,000.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Ship capacity transiting through the Panama Canal was 10 percent lower between September 2024 and January 2025 than the 2019-22 average, measured in deadweight tonnage, according to the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO).
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Feb. 2025
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Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2025
Waste Management sought approval to increase its tonnage capacity to take in wildfire debris anyway, which Riverside County officials granted the next day.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
To accommodate debris removal, the county last week approved a waiver extending the landfill’s hours of operation and increasing the daily tonnage limit from 3,500 tons per day to 5,000.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Ship capacity transiting through the Panama Canal was 10 percent lower between September 2024 and January 2025 than the 2019-22 average, measured in deadweight tonnage, according to the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO).
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonnage
Noun
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The decrease is attributed to a reduction in poundage sold.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
14 Nov. 2024
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This decrease is attributed to the decrease in poundage sold.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
14 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Consider buying materials in bulk for larger areas to save money.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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But the prolific writer-director’s latest provides an illustration of how the genre became somewhat fossilized via formulaic writing and overexposure even before 1950s television began churning out Western content in bulk.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Losing that 200 pounds of deadweight freed me up to focus on advancing my career.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2025
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Losing that 200 pounds of deadweight has freed me up to focus on advancing my career.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Tonnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonnage. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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