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Recent Examples of railroad
Fewer containers to ship means lower profits for trucking companies, warehouse firms, and railroads.
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
War stories have acquired even greater momentum since railroads and military staff colleges emerged in the late nineteenth century, when states committed themselves to the business of planning—a serious work that nevertheless entails playing war games and imagining scenarios.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
The commuter rail project has been in the works for decades but was hindered by a lack of access to railroad tracks and funding.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
War stories have acquired even greater momentum since railroads and military staff colleges emerged in the late nineteenth century, when states committed themselves to the business of planning—a serious work that nevertheless entails playing war games and imagining scenarios.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
The commuter rail project has been in the works for decades but was hindered by a lack of access to railroad tracks and funding.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad
Noun
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A day when the Stanley Cup years finally ride the synaptic road back to long-term memory and the brain finally bumps the past for the present.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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The floods have also left 11 people missing, inundated more than 116,000 houses and 5,000 hectares of crops, and damaged roads and railways, cutting off traffic and power in several areas, the government’s disaster agency said in a report.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The railway advises visitors to be well-equipped with proper clothing and gear and to be prepared for emergencies.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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From mid-October until mid-May, the railway carries visitors to a lower point, Waumbek Station at 4,000 feet, instead of continuing to the summit.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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