How to Use common carrier in a Sentence
common carrier
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The most common carrier oils are MCT oil and hemp seed oil.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 May 2022
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Bats and skunks are the most common carriers of the disease in Michigan.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2018
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Raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in Maine.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
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Glycerin is one of the common carriers used in e-juice cartridges.
—Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2019
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And even the Texas and Florida laws stop short of that by resorting to the common carrier framework.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 8 June 2022
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The most common carrier is a rodent of the Mastomys species, 4 to 7 inches long and with 24 mammary glands.
—Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
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Raccoons are the most common carrier of rabies in Maryland.
—Catalina Righter, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Oct. 2019
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Today, raccoons, bats, skunks, and foxes are the most common carriers.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
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Once Google is declared a common carrier, the average web user's experience of search would, for the most part, remain the same.
—Dave Yost, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
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Studies have also found that goldfish are a common carrier of parasites that affect the gills.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2022
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Raccoons are typically the most common carriers in the U.S., but bats are more likely to infect people.
—Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
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The winery is also offering $10 flat-rate shipping via a common carrier for orders of six or more bottles.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2020
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Home and mobile Internet providers were classified as common carriers by the FCC starting in 2015.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
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Historically, dogs have been a common carrier, as anyone who’s watched the Disney classic Old Yeller can tell you.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
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Alcohol, the most common carrier liquid, maintains the structure of a fragrance.
—Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Nov. 2022
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But after today, maybe AT&T won't mind being a common carrier after all.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
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Owen Turner of Boston is facing charges of gross negligence of a person in control of a train, and gross negligence of a person having care of a common carrier, according to the records.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
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The transport of produced oil from the early production facilities to ConocoPhillips’ common carrier Alpine pipeline was expected to start in the fourth quarter of the year.
—Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2019
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Vidon Vineyard: Free ground shipping via common carrier within Oregon is available with the purchase of three or more bottles.
—Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2020
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He was fascinated with the B&O, the nation’s first common carrier railroad that built westward from Baltimore in 1828, and undertook a history of the line.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 12 May 2018
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Raccoons are common carriers of rabies, which can be spread to humans if a rabid animal's saliva or neural tissue comes into contact with a bite, scratch, cut or gets in the mouth, nose or eyes.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 27 May 2023
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Now, there’s a difference between asking a judge to declare that Google is already a common carrier, as the Ohio lawsuit does, and asking Congress to pass a new law forcing Google to be a common carrier.
—Gilad Edelman, Wired, 15 July 2021
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The bill would also prohibit the FCC from imposing any type of common carrier regulations on broadband providers.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2018
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The court affirmed the FCC's authority to decide whether broadband should be considered a common carrier service.
—Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
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The terms of release in the federal case ban her from consuming any alcohol and was barred from interstate travel via common carrier, with one exception.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2021
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In fact, Section 230 already does recognize social-media platforms as a kind of common carrier.
—Nate Hochman, National Review, 16 Oct. 2021
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However, raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in the state, and bringing the wild animal into a pet store constituted an unnecessary risk to public health, Latti said.
—CBS News, 29 May 2023
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And fourth, eliminate shipment of weapons and related materials by common carrier across state lines.
—Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
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The court did decide, however, that the pipeline’s enabling U.S. participation in the international oil and gas market was beneficial enough to be deemed a common carrier.
—Eve Andrews, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2023
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Differences on the court Wednesday emerged over how to think about the platforms -- as akin to newspapers that have broad free-speech protections, or telephone companies, known as common carriers that are susceptible to broader regulation.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Feb. 2024
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