Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipments
Noun
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Iran announced Saturday that Iraq would be exempt from its shipping restrictions in the strait, allowing for as much as 3 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil cargoes.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026 -
An Iraqi official, however, cautioned that the usefulness of the exemption will depend on whether shipping companies are willing to risk entering the strait to collect cargoes.—
Patrick Sykes,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The packages, according to the spokesperson, are low-cost vegetable or flower seeds.—
Michael Guise,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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Rodney is off delivering packets of fish to other members of his family.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Seed packets should have sowing instructions specific to that plant.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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Hostinger’s managed WordPress hosting bundles the core pieces into one plan.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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Saudi Arabia has increased crude loadings in recent weeks, and strategic petroleum reserves held by major consuming nations like China, could provide some temporary cushioning to the market, Rystad Energy said in a note Sunday.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
3 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Blue Ghost is designed to deliver 10 NASA payloads.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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Named after the infamous Japanese suicide pilots of World War II, these kinds of drones can actively hunt for targets, track them, and then ram into them, detonating their explosive payloads.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Shipments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipments. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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