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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Recent Examples of carloads Three carloads of Crips headed for Club 662. Gina Barton, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025 The formation of an intercontinental railroad would ideally cut down transit times, particularly by reducing interchange points, where carloads and containers are moved from one railroad to the other. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • The team recently achieved the production of up to 10 tons of liquid air per day, representing a significant milestone in advancing the technology toward large-scale commercial viability.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
  • While that marked the lowest annual increase in 10 years, more than 170 million tons of new LNG supply are set to be available by 2030 in service of burgeoning global power demand, the energy major noted in its latest market assessment.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a lot of tradesmen, but songwriters… There’s not loads of them.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One makes big plays at big moments, the other piles up a steady stream of little plays that lead to those big plays.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Human rights groups, citing concerns over forced confessions, have condemned a wave of hundreds of arrests and warned that the government is using the June conflict as a pretext to escalate repression.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Her visit to Rogers comes 13 days after hundreds of Arkansas farmers met with staff members from the state's congressional delegation in Brookland in Craighead County to describe their economic status.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Filled with warm spices, tender chunks of fruit, and pecans, and topped with a caramel glaze, Apple Dapple Cake will put you in a fall state of mind—even if the weather isn’t quite there yet.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To be sure, the last few years have been more challenging, with Gucci rapidly losing momentum — and Kering’s debt load swelling after an acquisition spree that included Creed, Maui Jim, a 30 percent stake in Valentino, and large chunks of prime real estate.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The project demands about 500,000 cubic meters of concrete and 80,000 tons of steel – material quantities that dwarf most construction projects globally.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For now, limited quantities of the handbags are available exclusively in-person at select Alo stores, showcasing the high-end craftsmanship, which deserves to be discovered firsthand through touch and experience.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Last time, Republicans were defending more than two dozen districts won by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Three dozen lucky Klarna staffers just joined the ultrarich club thanks to its recent stock windfall.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the early two-thousands, his team had taken a first shot at the ten-foot-high bundles of wheat that adorn some of the windows.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • To build this fall door wreath, wire bundles of ornamental grass and purple fountain grass seed heads to a wreath form, keeping the shape loose and imperfect.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Carloads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carloads. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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