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Recent Examples of railroad
An $85 billion merger took less than two weeks to firm up, leaving CSX as the smallest US railroad and on the back foot.
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Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2025
It’s adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella and follows Robert Grainier, a logger working on the railroad that will cross the United States, at the turn of the 20th century.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Modern board games range from strategic to luck-based, with diverse themes such as birding, zombies and railroads.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
The agency prepared the report as part of an effort to review all major railroads to address safety concerns after a 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
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Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2025
It’s adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella and follows Robert Grainier, a logger working on the railroad that will cross the United States, at the turn of the 20th century.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Modern board games range from strategic to luck-based, with diverse themes such as birding, zombies and railroads.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
The agency prepared the report as part of an effort to review all major railroads to address safety concerns after a 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad
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For the filmmakers working in the region over the past two years, it’s been a long, arduous road to reach audiences, as the war impacted their physical productions and made potential distributors wary of facing political backlash for releasing their films.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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Gripen fighters have the reputation of being relatively cheap and easy to maintain and arm, and able to operate in austere conditions – using roads or even dirt roads for runways.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Difficult path to building urban railways However, other types of obstacles presented themselves.—
Michael Wells,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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Eyewitnesses reported seeing one of the railway’s two cars derailing and careening down the street before hitting a building.—
Angélica Franganillo Díaz,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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