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as in unpacks
to empty or rid of cargo
the dockworkers unloaded the ship
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as in discards
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
I can't seem to unload this old car—even the charities won't take it!
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Recent Examples of unloads
An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on March 11, 2026.
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Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
After his dreams are all but dashed, Shah unloads on himself.
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Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
The ambulance then unloads her on the tarmac next to a private plane.
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Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Continue reading … HEALTH HORROR – Medical watchdog unloads on VCU after nurse fired for viral anti-ICE TikTok video.
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FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
And with that, Kyle kills him, then unloads three more bullets into the body.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
Agnes unloads the weight of the world on the baby by explaining that some bad life experiences are going to happen, but at least the baby has a good support system.
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Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
After his dreams are all but dashed, Shah unloads on himself.
—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
The ambulance then unloads her on the tarmac next to a private plane.
—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2026
Continue reading … HEALTH HORROR – Medical watchdog unloads on VCU after nurse fired for viral anti-ICE TikTok video.
—
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
And with that, Kyle kills him, then unloads three more bullets into the body.
—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
Agnes unloads the weight of the world on the baby by explaining that some bad life experiences are going to happen, but at least the baby has a good support system.
—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloads
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Ana Nogueira unpacks Krem's new backstory, that ending, and why there's no Comet the Super-Horse.
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Specifically, Isaacson unpacks the words, references, and structure that make one line in particular, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.
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Try the Storm Chaser, which sends you into a zero-gravity fall, catches you in a funnel, then discards you into a pool below.
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At the same time, Gans discards the psychological and spatial logic that gave meaning to the original telling’s dream-like sense of disorientation.
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Not everyone evacuates at once in a storm.
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There is this tendency to frame eating disorders as a purely biological phenomenon in a way that kind of evacuates them of all meaning, or actually repels the attempt to create meaning.
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News 12 reported that the boy's body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there.
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Towns dumps the ball off to Mitchell Robinson for his easiest two points of the night.
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Oakland police also asserted an exemption to a California law that requires the release within 45 days of body-cam footage in critical incidents when a peace officer discharges a firearm at a person, or when use of force results in death or great bodily injury.
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After localizing, the UAV discharges an ampoule filled with a fire extinguishant from an onboard launcher and puts out the fire.
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Meta ditches Ray-Ban and adds Kylie Jenner.
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
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Simone empties out the frivolities and installs her unique despair.
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Flores checks for spills, then empties the mug back into the pot by hand and does it again — hundreds of times.
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
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Sweden loses key piece The first half was a sloppy slugfest as both teams tried to use their physicality to assume control.
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“Unloads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unloads. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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