as in loading
to place a weight or burden on
it took six hours to freight the cargo airplane
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First steps in that process occurred last week, when the Chokai practiced loading dummy Tomahawk munitions into its vertical launch cells.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025 -
In two of them — July 17, 2005, and July 5, 2008 — the Red Sox actually scored a run before loading the bases … and before Mariano Rivera then escaped all that trouble.—
Jayson Stark,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Shop even more clothes and shoes worth packing, up to 75 percent off, ahead.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Oct. 2025
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Add onion slices in one layer, packing tightly.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Rite Aid first filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, largely because of competition from bigger chains and its debt pile, which topped $4 billion due to expensive legal battles for allegedly filling unlawful opioid prescriptions.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Doing things for me would be washing my car or filling up my tank.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Freighting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freighting. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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