FREIGHTING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

freighting

verb

present participle of freight

as in loading

to place a weight or burden on it took six hours to freight the cargo airplane

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Recent Examples of freighting By 2011, Delicias Import was freighting at least four full containers. — Paula De La Cruz, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 As Arizona squeezes more money from its decreasing share of river water, freighting every drop with critical industries and a booming housing market, the price of water is bound to keep climbing. — Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025

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Plenty of my friends worked there loading clays; nothing like working in a box in the middle of August, with the sun beating down on a barren landscape, just make gas money and some Friday night jingle.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Still, trading Ray will be another avenue to continue loading a farm system on the rise.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 31 July 2026

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The AirPods Pro 3 deliver ultimate quiet for busy campus routines, packing twice the active noise cancellation of previous models to block out library distractions.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
And packing no GoTo computer requires at least a rudimentary knowledge of the night sky and a star atlas or planetarium software.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026

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The novelty vending machines mold souvenir sculptures — a train car, a gorilla, a bust of Abraham Lincoln — in under a minute, filling a two-sided mold with hot plastic, then hollowing it out with compressed air.

— Juliet Bennett Rylah, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
Mauricio Dubon, meanwhile, was expected to continue filling a super-utility role while remaining in the lineup regularly.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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