Thesaurus results for CARGOES

cargoes

noun

variants or cargos

plural of cargo

as in payloads

a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon

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Recent Examples of cargoes The Saudis are making additional crude cargoes available to Asian refiners through ship-to-ship transfers just outside Hormuz near Oman's Sohar port, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. — Spencer Kimball,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 Iran is demanding a 5% or 7% service fee per barrel of oil that would generate close to $20 billion annually, and that’s not even counting fees on other cargoes, such as natural gas, petrochemicals, helium, fertilizer, and container cargoes. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026 In early April, for instance, Brent futures traded at around $113 per barrel while physical cargoes of the stuff sold for as much as $144. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 The war in the Middle East has made cargoes more scarce and, in turn, more expensive, raising the prospects of another energy crunch. — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 This would add logistical friction to the process of first unloading and then reloading the oil cargoes. — Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The aircraft is being designed with modular hardware and avionics so payloads and systems can be changed as missions evolve.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
The situation jeopardized the US government’s policy of ensuring two separate rocket types are available to launch national security payloads into orbit.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of payloads

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But the state still carries more than $30 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, one of the largest burdens, per capita, in the nation, and isn’t expected to finish paying that off until well into the 2040s.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
The bills’ supporters argued that the state lacks a complete understanding of data centers’ water usage, while opponents believed the existing reporting sufficient, and posited that new laws would create undue burdens.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of burdens

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Saudi crude loadings at its Mideast Gulf ports are up so far this month, said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at Kpler.

— Spencer Kimball,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
In fact, trade intelligence firm Kpler said Iran’s August crude export loadings have collapsed more than 80% compared to a year ago.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026

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