tonnage

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for tonnage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonnage
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Warehousing • Items are scanned in bulk at receiving and picking.
    Amy Gu, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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