shipment

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Recent Examples of shipment The shipper provided the freight forwarder with information about the shipment, including contents, value, destination and recipient, according to the document. Christina Hall, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025 Syria exports first crude oil shipment since 2010 Syria is seeing promising signs of revival nine months after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the end of a 14-year civil war. Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025 Canada Post and Ukrposta both work with Zonos, a cross-border tax and customs compliance software Zonos, to collect duties before the shipment is accepted. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025 However, Dell raised its full-year revenue outlook to between $105 and $109 billion and increased its AI server shipment target to $20 billion, up from a prior forecast of $15 billion. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shipment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipment
Noun
  • The Dream Chaser is designed to deliver cargo and eventually people to orbit, landing as gently as a commercial airliner.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The average cargo ship produces a steady rumble between about 20 and 200 hertz, roughly the same low-frequency band as a bass speaker, at a volume that’s on par with a chainsaw at close range.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The lucrative pay package would only take effect if Musk completes a series of goals in the coming years.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Stepping up to the next package, the $529 Video Essentials package comes with everything in the Security Starter system and also gives you a choice of a Nest Doorbell or a Google Nest Cam.
    John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Falling freight rates have been a byproduct of the slowing container demand, with Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) measuring a 3 percent weekly decline to $2,044 per 40-foot container.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But the team has mitigated what would have been an unmanageable $180 million hit by rebalancing sourcing away from China, renegotiating vendor terms and optimizing freight.
    John Buckingham, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hiverge has already demonstrated the utility of its Hive system by using it to win the Airbus Beluga Challenge, which calls on contestants to find the most optimal way of loading and storage of aircraft parts that are carried by an Airbus Beluga XL aircraft.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Ahead of the busy holiday shopping season, Brzytwa suggested that many companies may be prepared to maintain prices, based on front-loading of inventory by firms in anticipation of more complicated tariff regimes coming.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Built to last, the 2020 model features a new roof design that boasts up to 90 pounds per square foot of snow load.
    Gabriela Izquierdo, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Placing items on top of a hay bale can add variety and dimension to your display while lending greater visibility to items located further back.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The last batch of bales fell from the sky.
    Martin Suarez, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During the pandemic, Liu’s mother gave her a packet of report cards from her youth in New York City.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Check the seed packet for the average size of the heads.
    Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One example can be as simple as shipments that are missing bills of lading or origin documents.
    Forbes, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • According to bills of lading and other records provided to the San Antonio Express-News by officials at 23 food banks, CRE8AD8 delivered about 147,000 boxes total to food banks.
    Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2020

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“Shipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipment. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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