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Recent Examples of wagonloadFans have been given a wagonload of Duttons since Costner blazed the trail.—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023 Soon 300,000 copies were in circulation, generating plaudits and hate mail by the wagonload.—James Marcus, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022 Before purchasing a wagonload of rose plants, and then scratching your head over what to do with those scraggly things, read up for tips on how to prepare a proper home for your rose bushes.—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2021 Sometimes Natives and newcomers, the white families lurching in by the wagonload as the century turned, coexisted.—Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020 A few weeks later, an eager group of 40 middle schoolers from the St Joseph’s Camp S*MILE summer program also lent a hand and set a summer record by gathering three wagonloads of corn during their visit to First Fruits Farm.—Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2019 And there are still two wagonloads of hay In the cut fields that need to be brought in
Out of the risks of the weather,
Bales well-cured and dry, sweet stuff.—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 11 Mar. 2018 Harvey’s was serving 500 wagonloads of the tasty bivalves a week.—John Kelly, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018 The name, however, has a longer history because the location once housed the Cuban restaurant Victor’s Cafe; near the front door there’s still a mural of oxen pulling a wagonload of sugar cane.—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
That railroad had a 30-percent stranglehold on containers across all rail carloads in 2024.
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Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
28 July 2025
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.
The trainload of passengers, now kitted out for a jungle excursion, stepped out into tropical heat and loaded into a caravan of open-air jeeps to explore the park.
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Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
North Korea delivered trainloads of weapons and ammunition, including millions of artillery rounds and ballistic missiles and launchers, in direct violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions.
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.
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Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
Yet Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting at the border for the U.N. to distribute in Gaza.
The ferrying cargo ships became high-value targets themselves.
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Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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.
Best Amazon Prime Member Home Deals Amazon’s Prime Day sale includes a boatload of household essentials.
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Clara McMahon,
People.com,
8 July 2025
Amazon Prime Day is underway, meaning a boatload of Prime Day furniture deals on just about every type of seating and storage under the sun just dropped its anchor.
Carhartt, a brand recently spotted on Jennifer Garner — shop her exact overalls here — has discounted loads of outdoor gear, with prices starting at $12.
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Ali Faccenda,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Adding chia on top of that fiber load may increase digestive discomfort.
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