SHIPLOADS Synonyms: 185 Similar and Opposite Words

shiploads

noun

plural of shipload

as in loads

a considerable amount it must have taken a shipload of money to build that mansion

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Recent Examples of shiploads Planters simply replaced the dead with fresh shiploads of Africans. — ABC News, 28 May 2026 Adding insult to injury, Argentina has suspended its export tax and was rewarded with Chinese orders last month for 20 shiploads of soybeans, deepening a market downturn for American growers. — Patricia Lopez, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025

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Noun

Why the farmer’s walk works Walking with heavy loads recruits nearly every major muscle group, with particular activation in the core and lower body.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Flaxseeds From lowering cholesterol to lowering the risk of certain diseases, flaxseeds come with loads of health benefits.

— Audrey Noble, Vogue, 24 July 2026

Definition of loads

Noun

Federal prosecutors accuse Maduro and Flores of conspiring with drug cartels to facilitate the flow of thousands of tons of cocaine into the United States.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Six Boeing 767 airlifts have carried 295 tons of relief supplies into the country.

— Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of tons

Noun

Miami officials have agreed to spend up to $150 million to lease dozens of new city vehicles — from street sweepers to motorcycles and ambulances — to address the city’s aging fleet.

— Tess Riski July 24, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
While The Athletic spoke to a dozen sources around the league for this story, almost all refused to comment for publication, even anonymously.

— Annie Costabile, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of dozens

Noun

While baking soda is famously good at deodorizing smelly things, adding salt to compost piles can interrupt the composting process.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2026
Instead, there would be an uptick in compound disasters, as one extreme piles upon another.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 20 July 2026

Definition of piles

Noun

In addition to the startling experience of touching the remains of an animal that lived hundreds of millions of years ago, contact with the Mastodonsaurus offers an opportunity to reflect on the future, those involved in the project said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
As artificial intelligence expands across K-12 schools, Massachusetts announced a new $500,000 public-private investment in AI applied learning opportunities for hundreds of students, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced Tuesday.

— Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 22 July 2026

Definition of hundreds

Noun

The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Scientists can pore over these spectral fingerprints to reconstruct what elements created them and in what quantities.

— Rahul Rao, Space.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of quantities

Noun

Other artists who’ve canceled either entire tours or significant chunks of their dates this year range from the Pussycat Dolls to Meghan Trainor to the only partially nixed Post Malone/Jelly Roll stadium tour.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2026
Bronin and Larson ignore Gilchrest, who on June 30 had a paltry $35,000 to spend in the final weeks of the campaign, and concentrate on tearing chunks out of each other.

— Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026

Definition of chunks

Noun

The licenses are split into 11 lots, valued at $230 million in total, with clauses to prevent a single company from owning all the spectrum bands.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
Carry more than one form of payment, since some concession stands and lots still take cash only or have card readers that fail at the worst possible moment.

— Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 July 2026

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