shipments

Definition of shipmentsnext
plural of shipment

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Noun
  • The vast majority have been attempting to leave the Persian Gulf, but empty tankers are also needed inside, to be loaded with new cargoes.
    Weilun Soon, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The mountain spring blue color is crisp and pairs well with both dark-wash jeans and light-wash cargos.
    Paris Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The packages, according to the spokesperson, are low-cost vegetable or flower seeds.
    Michael Guise, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The combination of those respective services is over $1,500 a year, and that doesn’t include the fees that come with basic cable packages or high-speed Wi-Fi that is needed to accommodate the platforms.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The bales weighed nearly 780 pounds and were estimated to have a street value of more than $5 million altogether.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The artificial ice would be surrounded by bales of hay to provide a safety barrier for skaters.
    Cary Goodman, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Photons, which are packets of light energy, stream in from the Sun and strike a semiconductor material, typically silicon.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Under this system, any attempt to trigger a vulnerability by manipulating memory runs into the Rust wall—it can’t be affected by malicious DNS packets.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Once transported to the canyon, the modular components were assembled and put into place using one of the world’s largest cable cranes (cranes that move loads while suspended on cables), which spanned the gorge between the two towers.
    Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
  • According to Archer Western, HDR’s design engineers failed to properly account for wind loads — including hurricane winds — in an initial, partial design for the signature bridge arches that the contractor used to calculate construction costs and time for its bid.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Choose from pasta, rice and Spicy Buffalo Ranch Mac & Cheese in four and eight-pack options, plus bundles.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Hostinger’s managed WordPress hosting bundles the core pieces into one plan.
    StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The attack happened just as Ust-Luga resumed crude loadings over weekend after days of disruptions amid attacks in the region.
    Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Across multiple designs and operating conditions, CNTF heaters consistently achieved higher specific power loadings than comparable metal-alloy elements.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Also flying were payloads for Astranis Space Technologies and Gravity Space headed for geostationary orbits.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Commercial Landers Eight years ago NASA initiated a modest program to pay private companies to land small payloads, typically a few dozen to a few hundred kilograms, on the Moon.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2026
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“Shipments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipments. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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