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• “Mr. Obama studiously avoided calling his American Jobs Act a "stimulus" plan, a term freighted with political baggage.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Obama's Bid to Spur Growth

• “Seniority is a term freighted with significance in terms of Congress.”

  Ammann at AGU #2 « Climate Audit

• “Every now and then, however, you come across a statement that is the exact opposite of all that — a few simple words of plain English freighted with meaning.”

  Newsweek: No Insurance? That’s a Killer.

• “Nearly every character has a name freighted with so much baggage, you sense that Gowers doesn’t trust you to figure such things out on your own.”

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• “But the title was freighted with doubt because Mr. Ali had been stripped of it in 1967 for declining to be drafted, citing his religious beliefs as a member of the Nation of Islam.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Joe Frazier, Champion Boxer and Ali Foil, Dies

• “But just as difficult is the fact that the word is freighted with a multimillennia-long train of emotional and intellectual baggage that often derails attempts to engage in informed dialogue about the nature of God, especially between believers and secular people.”

  Simon & Schuster: God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …

• “A literary dialog is all thought out and each phrase freighted with significance, while a real conversation is spontaneous.”

  "The real problem with literary types is..."

• ““Theory” is almost as negatively-freighted a word as “liberal” these days, but we all have theories about what poetry can (and can’t do) and what it could (and should) look like.”

  About Reviews : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “We suspect that religiously based ties are morally freighted in a way that most secular ties are not, so that pleas for good works giving, volunteering, joining a reform movement, serving as a leader in some civic organization, and so forth seem more appropriate and weightier than comparable requests from a co-worker or someone you know from the gym.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “The U.P. freighted in coal miners, and around the mine adits rose the Wyoming towns of Carbon, Hanna, Superior and Rock Springs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

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