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
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.
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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 The Paper, the new series from Office co-creator Greg Daniels and comedy veteran Michael Koman, arrives freighted with the baggage of an entire sitcom movement.
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 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
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 The Paper, the new series from Office co-creator Greg Daniels and comedy veteran Michael Koman, arrives freighted with the baggage of an entire sitcom movement.
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 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
Verb
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They were loaded onto buses and driven hours away to an ICE Detention Center.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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Mounted externally on the KSOT, the ‘Piranha’ torpedo was loaded into the starboard-side launch tube.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Trucks filled with uranium ore rumble down two-lane highways, sharing the road with tourists and locals, and the question of what happens in an accident concerns people along the route.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
AZCentral.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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Other photos show the music artist bringing the hero product into focus inside a quintessential South Beach store filled with postcards, neon bikinis and graffiti merchandise.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Freighted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freighted. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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