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Recent Examples of tonnage
The oceans, which cover 70% of Earth and are crucial to mitigating global warming, will likely contain more tonnage of plastic junk than fish by 2050.
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Vivienne Walt, Time, 11 June 2025
Sports, in particular, will probably be the last events to lose advertising tonnage.
—Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
Month-over-month, commodity import tonnage declined in every category except soybeans, which doubled.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
May’s overall tonnage numbers did not help Old Dominion’s case.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 June 2025
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Vivienne Walt, Time, 11 June 2025
Sports, in particular, will probably be the last events to lose advertising tonnage.
—Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
Month-over-month, commodity import tonnage declined in every category except soybeans, which doubled.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
May’s overall tonnage numbers did not help Old Dominion’s case.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonnage
Noun
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Last time, the festival kitchen sold out its entire poundage so organizers are stocking up with more this year.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
22 June 2025
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The sale, typically only run in January, gives customers a discount based on the poundage of their book.—
Ashley Fredde,
Idaho Statesman,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Warehousing • Items are scanned in bulk at receiving and picking.—
Amy Gu,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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With the rise of plastic injection molding in the 1940s and '50s, companies started mass-producing recorders and selling them in bulk to school districts for as little as $1 apiece.—
Abigail Covington,
NPR,
16 July 2025
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That was the point where Sunderland began to fall off the Premier League cliff-edge, and Ndong was a deadweight to hasten their demise.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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Thus, Ockham's razor cuts loose the deadweight of the theory, leaving it with only the necessary pieces of explanation.—
Julius Černiauskas,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Tonnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonnage. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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