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Recent Examples of tonnage
Now, a fee will be charged based on the vessel's net tonnage capacity instead of the number of vehicles being carried.
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Those rail networks also enable Alliance to move roughly half of Texas’s freight tonnage, according to the report.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
Trucks move more than 70% of domestic freight by tonnage.
—Andrea Ruth, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
So far this year, the port has processed 282,547 tons, according to tonnage data provided by Shell.
—Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Those rail networks also enable Alliance to move roughly half of Texas’s freight tonnage, according to the report.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Oct. 2025
Trucks move more than 70% of domestic freight by tonnage.
—Andrea Ruth, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
So far this year, the port has processed 282,547 tons, according to tonnage data provided by Shell.
—Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonnage
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And we were limited by a poundage, and days at sea, and all these different mechanisms used to constrain the fishery.—
Dan Morrison,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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The topic of weight becomes a thread through the entire episode, from a carnival barker who specializes in guessing a guest's poundage to Larry not being able to fly home because of a heavy souvenir (coffee beans for his new business venture).—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Savings come from finding scale in mass production, with factories buying materials in bulk and cutting down material waste through computer design.—
Addie Costello,
jsonline.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Despite its considerable bulk, the S680 was in its element, using its prodigious 664 ft lbs of torque to slingshot out of the curves, while rear-wheel steering, adaptive air suspension and all-wheel drive kept it on an even keel through the tightest Alpine curves.—
Howard Walker,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
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The university that once promised to buoy scientific aspirations now feels like a deadweight.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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The project reportedly took place at the COSCO Zhoushan shipyard in China’s Putuo District, on Grand Pioneer, a 325,000 deadweight-ton very large ore carrier (VLOC) operated by the Taiwanese company.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Tonnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonnage. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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