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Recent Examples of rail
Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Delivered with third-rail voltage rock ‘n’ roll, or sweet, heartbreaking, lush, symphonic melodies, either version of the man’s music is classic.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Nov. 2025
Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Independent redistricting advocates have railed against politically skewed voting districts designed to benefit one political party, describing such gerrymandering as a way to distort election outcomes by letting politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around.
—Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Siemens expects the high-speed rail network to reach nearly 90 percent of the population.
—Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
Delivered with third-rail voltage rock ‘n’ roll, or sweet, heartbreaking, lush, symphonic melodies, either version of the man’s music is classic.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
And there’s plenty of bad out there — including a news story about a faulty railing giving way and causing a woman’s death.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Independent redistricting advocates have railed against politically skewed voting districts designed to benefit one political party, describing such gerrymandering as a way to distort election outcomes by letting politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around.
—Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rail
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In recent months, Friends of Coast Walk Trail shepherded a project in partnership with the city of San Diego to install new decking and railings for the old wooden bridge and repairs to the south stairs, which were completed in September.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Nov. 2025
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And maybe Tesoro was a little lax on childproofing, like waving off putting a railing on the temporary stairwell between the first and second floor.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Running Fence was envisioned as a fabric-laden fence that would traverse Sonoma and Marin counties in Northern California to the sea, crossing roads, highways, and private property.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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If there is no parking lot or driveway to pull into, pull your vehicle off to the side of the road as far as possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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When someone is ranting and raving about you, ignore them.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
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In the late 19th century, in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants began arriving in California in search of opportunity, enticed by the promise of employment with mining companies, agricultural producers, and railroads.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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In 1912 one-sixth of Oklahoma voters cast their ballots for Eugene Debs, a former railroad union leader, who ran for president on the Socialist Party (SP) ticket.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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As for fighting the Trump pressure campaign, even politicians as ambitious as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are mostly left to file lawsuits — and fulminate.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Roads and railways have been damaged and power disrupted in several areas.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The terminal operator aims to enhance the port’s capacity and capabilities with state-of-the-art container and liquid cargo-handling infrastructure, while strengthening multimodal connectivity with India’s major railways and inland infrastructure.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Newsom is widely reviled here for cutting back on oil drilling and not prioritizing new reservoirs to store water for thirsty farms.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Stone and Lanthimos have since worked together several times, and their collaboration, a mutual-favoritism society, has been hailed and sometimes reviled for its darkly exuberant sense of risk.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Rail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rail. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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