loading
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burden, cargo, draft, freight, haul, lading, load, payload, weight
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The thing is, carbo-loading without nutrients like fat and protein to temper the rise in glucose can make your blood sugar spike, then dip, which is not ideal. — Zahra Barnes, SELF, "Skipping Meals: What Happens When You're Not Eating Enough," 4 Jan. 2019 The ship-loading facility, benefiting from expanding harvests on Canada’s western plains and regulatory changes to the way grain companies can ship crops, has nearly doubled its agricultural exports since 2008. — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, "A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones," 25 Nov. 2018 This room’s packed with locals, bleary-eyed but happy, and carb-loading like marathoners. — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, "Loud, Crowded, Grease-Stained, and Gloriously Drunk: Where the World Eats After Hours," 8 Oct. 2018 Buying a pair of front-loading machines allowed us to stack them, using vertical space that would be wasted otherwise. — Jourdan Fairchild, House Beautiful, "The $400 Makeover That Actually Makes Me Look Forward To Doing Laundry," 6 Oct. 2018 Prosecutors presented evidence that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj provided some of the children with firearms training, including tactical skills such as speed-loading guns and firing while in motion. — Morgan Lee, Fox News, "3 accused of abuse at New Mexico compound await release," 15 Aug. 2018 In Spain, the trade union organization CCOO told the Associated Press that 90 percent of workers at a warehouse near Madrid staged a walkout on Friday and Saturday, leaving only two people to man the loading dock. — Chavie Lieber, Vox, "Amazon workers in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the UK staged mass walkouts, protesting poor conditions and low wages.," 27 Nov. 2018 With hundreds of thousands of chickens in a typical operation (meat operations are smaller than egg-production facilities, but still in the hundred thousands), evacuation wouldn’t be a matter of a farmer loading up his truck. — Kelsey Piper, Vox, "How 3.4 million chickens drowned in Hurricane Florence," 24 Sep. 2018 SpaceX’s post-explosion investigation took place in Texas, where engineers tested the fuel loading process at the company’s McGregor test facility near Waco. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "SpaceX and NASA Reach Agreement on Astronaut Safety," 20 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'loading.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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