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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of freight.

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Examples

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

    Obama's Bid to Spur Growth Carol E. Lee 2011

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

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

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

    Ammann at AGU #2 « Climate Audit 2006

  • 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.

    No Insurance? That’s a Killer. 2008

  • 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.

    2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • 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.

    Joe Frazier, Champion Boxer and Ali Foil, Dies Stephen Miller 2011

  • 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.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • 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.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • 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.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • 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.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

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