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Recent Examples of trainload
Soon thereafter, trainloads of North Korean artillery shells started rolling to Russian troops in Ukraine—by American calculations, as many as one million munitions, or roughly three times what European nations had been able to supply in a whole year.
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Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
Modern-day Vanderbilts should expect a trainload of paperwork.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2023
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
In the waning days of the war, in April 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with a trainload of what was left of the Confederate treasury in gold and silver.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
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Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
Modern-day Vanderbilts should expect a trainload of paperwork.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2023
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
In the waning days of the war, in April 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with a trainload of what was left of the Confederate treasury in gold and silver.
—Washington Post, 2 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainload
Noun
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That railroad had a 30-percent stranglehold on containers across all rail carloads in 2024.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
28 July 2025
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These services are expected to reduce strain at interchange points in areas like Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans, where carloads are transported from one railroad to the other.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
29 July 2025
Noun
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Fans have been given a wagonload of Duttons since Costner blazed the trail.—
Naledi Ushe,
USA TODAY,
13 Apr. 2023
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Soon 300,000 copies were in circulation, generating plaudits and hate mail by the wagonload.—
James Marcus,
WSJ,
4 Nov. 2022
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But shiploads of Chinese passengers continued to journey across the ocean, finding ways around the law.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Giuliani said the fabric was initially used by sailors to cover shiploads, produce sails and eventually worn as workwear.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Jan. 2025
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Planning permission was given in 2000 to turn the land into community woodland, but instead the site was used as a trash dump, with reports of truckloads of waste being illegally emptied onto the site.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Yet Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting at the border for the U.N. to distribute in Gaza.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2025
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The ferrying cargo ships became high-value targets themselves.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The contest on day 34 had the final six separated into two teams of three that would race across a series of seesaws and up and through a cargo net tower before digging up a hatchet and chopping a rope.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Dean Martin plays the pilot in charge of a flight facing down a blizzard, a suicide bomber, and a boatload of personal dramas, with Burt Lancaster as the airport director dealing with things from the ground.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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There are many examples across sectors and across history which show that throwing up boatloads of money to poach top talent from competitors is never enough on its own.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
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Wyoming is home to Interstates 80 and 25, which meet in Cheyenne, and the state sees heavy cross-country freight traffic despite its low population.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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The proposed hyperloop link focuses on freight and logistics efficiency between JNPT and Vadhavan, reflecting state priorities to reduce road and rail congestion affecting container movement at major ports.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainload. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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