as in sending
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
we shipped those books out yesterday
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Recent Examples of shipping
Create an account ahead of the launch and save your credit card and shipping information to save time.
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Knightscope was founded in 2013 and has been shipping its robots to companies since 2015, gaining widespread attention and use in the last decade.
—Pj Green
september 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
In 2020, the small operation began shipping seeds and plants across the country.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
Noting that inventory levels were 3 percent higher than a year earlier, Tapia said this was tied to normalizing of shipping through the Red Sea following last year’s disruptions and is expected to continue to stabilize in the coming months.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Knightscope was founded in 2013 and has been shipping its robots to companies since 2015, gaining widespread attention and use in the last decade.
—Pj Green
september 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
In 2020, the small operation began shipping seeds and plants across the country.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025
Noting that inventory levels were 3 percent higher than a year earlier, Tapia said this was tied to normalizing of shipping through the Red Sea following last year’s disruptions and is expected to continue to stabilize in the coming months.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
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But this time, the Yankees battled back, sending Boston home with 4-3 and 4-0 victories the next two nights.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Fingerprint matrix Ordinary imaging methods, whether photographs, sonar, or ultrasound scans, rely on sending a wave toward an object and analyzing the portion that bounces back.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Courtney is a food delivery robot from Serve Robotics, transporting Uber Eats orders typically when there’s a mile or less between a restaurant and a customer.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Combs was convicted under the Mann Act, which bans transporting people across state lines for prostitution.—
Jennifer Peltz,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Shipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipping. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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