SHIPPED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

shipped

verb

past tense of ship

as in sent

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another we shipped those books out yesterday

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Recent Examples of shipped Once they were shipped off to the leprosy colony, the businessmen would seize the land; stuck across the water as a patient on Molokai, the local person had no access to legal remedy. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026 Trump has threatened to target Iran’s power stations and bridges to try to compel Tehran to loosen its hold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of world oil supplies were shipped before the war. — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 On Sunday, Taylor Farms recalled iceberg lettuce shipped to 27 states. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 They were shipped across the country, under the name of José Gregorio Hernández—a Venezuelan saint and a common name on the voter rolls. — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 In the $200,000 San Clemente Handicap 35-1 longshot Somerset West (Armando Ayuso) outran nine other 3-year-old fillies, including three formidable challengers who shipped in from the east. — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026 The Caspian Pipeline Consortium is a 940-mile oil pipeline connecting Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea oil deposits ⁠with Novorossiysk, where the oil is loaded and shipped by tanker to world markets. — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026 Bloomfield says they might get shipped overseas to places where recycling is done in unsafe and dirty conditions. — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 13 July 2026 The Destroyer shipped with a Screamin’ Eagle Race Tuner and is data-acquisition capable. — New Atlas, 13 July 2026

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So, when Thursday’s term sheet was sent to the Blazers, the team was put off by asks from the city, particularly the $3 million annual fee for a property tax offset and a requirement that the team hires union workers.

— Jason Quick, New York Times, 21 July 2026
So Iran sent all of that oil toward China, by far its biggest customer before and during the war.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 21 July 2026