unload
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Those shipments headed to an area off the coast of Malaysia where tankers from Iran unload oil to vessels that continue onward to China, a sanctions-evasion strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
She says they would have been heading for the southern coast of Myanmar, where they would unload their human cargo to smaller boats to put them back on dry land.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
However, the increased adoption of battery electric vehicles, or BEVs, favors the Chinese original equipment manufacturers while putting pressure on the sales volumes of European incumbents trying to unload cars with internal-combustion engines.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
First, I’d like to see a dishwasher with racks that can be raised, making it easier for tall people to load and unload them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
“You need to unload some of that nervous energy. Why don’t you take a lap?”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
One driver watches for blind spots while the other unloads the groceries.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
He hauls buckets of feed into the back of his ATV and unloads them in a pen crowded with cattle that outweigh him many times over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
The crypto selloff has deepened as Wall Street unloads risk-on assets amid concerns over the stretched valuations of artificial-intelligence stocks.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
Jose Campos, co-manager of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing nursery unloads four pots of native California asters for planting on the crossing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
The madness and despair of many hours unloads itself in this outburst.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The listing comes one year after the actress successfully unloaded another renovated property in Montecito, Calif., for $16.8 million—although she earned a much lower profit than she had initially hoped.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The flight is understood to have missed its air traffic control slot and departed an hour late after the missing passengers' bags were unloaded.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The longtime head greenkeeper was ecstatic as the new equipment was unloaded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Critics also unloaded to NBC News and other outlets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
When the last two bulls had been unloaded the herd were all together.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The Pentagon is beginning to shower money on high-tech defense startups—while also unloading ever-larger sums of cash on the traditional vendors that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has publicly disparaged as slow and bloated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The native Ohioan said she had so far only seen "a lot of forklifts unloading trucks. If I am online and I see...a commotion and a fanfare, I will probably come back."
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Crews were spotted unloading one large black box labeled "40-inch mirror ball" and a large white staircase railing.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
CBS also posted images on social media of crews unloading covered equipment labeled “Garden Party,” and other photos show a “40-inch mirror ball.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
We formed a circle about the first arrivals, some fifty men or so, who were unloading bricks from the bullock carts.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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