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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
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
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 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
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
Camps and sanitariums opened for business, and welcomed trainload upon trainload of them.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trainload
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In fewer than 15 minutes, two separate carloads of people pulled up to the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez last Saturday.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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In the paper, BNSF highlighted that a merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would control 45 percent of existing freight, citing STB metrics that also indicated that the combined company would move 46 percent of containers and have 43 percent market share of total carload volumes.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Advertisement By 1836, abolitionists' petitions were arriving at the Capitol by the wagonload.—
Time,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
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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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Adding insult to injury, Argentina has suspended its export tax and was rewarded with Chinese orders last month for 20 shiploads of soybeans, deepening a market downturn for American growers.—
Patricia Lopez,
Mercury News,
14 Oct. 2025
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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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Following the outage, the wholesale price of gas shot up by about 25 to 30 cents a gallon, forcing stations to pay about $2,000 more per truckload of gas, De Haan said.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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This is not something that anyone at Westland will say, but there has been quite a bit of press and publicity surrounding the theft, which comes on the heels of a truckload of Santo Tequila being hijacked about a year ago.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2025
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This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on cargo and cruise ships that carry $20 trillion of merchandise over international waters.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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The longer the shutdown lasts, the greater the risk of cargo backups at these Texas ports due to unpaid employees calling in sick.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Coach Willow Tote Bag Amazon’s October Prime Day sale has boatloads of standout deals, but this Coach bag is peaking my interest above all the others.—
Clara McMahon,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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Grier has hit on some trades that were not made on draft day (dealing Larry Tunsil to Houston for a boatload of picks, acquiring Jalen Ramsey and Tyreek Hill, among others).—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
5 Oct. 2025
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From there, the artworks were shuffled all at once to a freight elevator, and then moved into the exhibition hall, which can be seen on video surveillance.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
17 Oct. 2025
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All the works were moved in a single, continuous movement from the van to a freight elevator that took all the transportation company employees at once from floor -1 to floor 1, the center said.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Trainload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainload. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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