as in loaded
to place a weight or burden on
it took six hours to freight the cargo airplane
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Recent Examples of freighted
As dazzling as that was, the timing of Xu’s speech also freighted the topic with geopolitical import.
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Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Scenes are freighted with Easter eggs and inside jokes around game plot points that FNAF fanatics were already endlessly discussing across Discord, Reddit, Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
His fiction, neither notably blood-soaked nor mythologically freighted, also differs starkly from the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, contemporaries who likewise were famously steeped in the West.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
Demna’s work was hugely politically freighted at times, and Piccioli has spoken out, particularly on conservative views about women, in the past.
—Sarah Mower, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2025
Once ignored, it is suddenly freighted with meaning.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
But not all dumb dumb culture is entirely disposable, and not all escapism needs to be freighted with meaning to justify its place.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
Scenes are freighted with Easter eggs and inside jokes around game plot points that FNAF fanatics were already endlessly discussing across Discord, Reddit, Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
His fiction, neither notably blood-soaked nor mythologically freighted, also differs starkly from the work of Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, contemporaries who likewise were famously steeped in the West.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
Demna’s work was hugely politically freighted at times, and Piccioli has spoken out, particularly on conservative views about women, in the past.
—Sarah Mower, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2025
Once ignored, it is suddenly freighted with meaning.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
But not all dumb dumb culture is entirely disposable, and not all escapism needs to be freighted with meaning to justify its place.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freighted
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But since then Boston has loaded up, with Garrett Crochet, Ranger Suarez, Sonny Gray and Bello expected to lead a staff that could rank among the game’s elite.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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It gets loaded onto the truck and sent to Moscow, to be sold via Moscow to Astrakhan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
Verb
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For a chilled version, set the bowl of zabaglione inside a larger bowl filled with ice water.—
Rebecca Firkser,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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About 200 workers filled the sidewalk, the air thrumming with music, cowbells and drivers honking their horns in solidarity.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Freighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freighted. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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