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Recent Examples of tonnage
Waste Management sought approval to increase its tonnage capacity to take in wildfire debris anyway, which Riverside County officials granted the next day.
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Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
To accommodate debris removal, the county last week approved a waiver extending the landfill’s hours of operation and increasing the daily tonnage limit from 3,500 tons per day to 5,000.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Ship capacity transiting through the Panama Canal was 10 percent lower between September 2024 and January 2025 than the 2019-22 average, measured in deadweight tonnage, according to the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO).
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Feb. 2025
The decision berthed an impressive tonnage of stories: The New York Times, New York Post, and even People covered it.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2024
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Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
To accommodate debris removal, the county last week approved a waiver extending the landfill’s hours of operation and increasing the daily tonnage limit from 3,500 tons per day to 5,000.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Ship capacity transiting through the Panama Canal was 10 percent lower between September 2024 and January 2025 than the 2019-22 average, measured in deadweight tonnage, according to the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO).
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Feb. 2025
The decision berthed an impressive tonnage of stories: The New York Times, New York Post, and even People covered it.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonnage
Noun
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North Carolina edged Minnesota last year in total poundage, producing just over 1.07 billion pounds, compared with just over 1.05 billion pounds for Minnesota.—
Steve Karnowski,
Twin Cities,
26 Nov. 2024
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This decrease is attributed to the decrease in poundage sold.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
14 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Yun Hai, a specialty food shop in New York City, buys directly from rice farms, soy sauce breweries and mills in Taiwan, then ships the goods over in bulk, supplying grocery stores and restaurants across the country.—
Kim Severson,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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But Nintendo's new console is still noticeably short of Steam Deck-level bulk, coming in about 17 percent lighter (and a bit less wide and thick) than Valve's handheld.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Losing that 200 pounds of deadweight freed me up to focus on advancing my career.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2025
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Losing that 200 pounds of deadweight has freed me up to focus on advancing my career.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Tonnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonnage. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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