offload
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She told AFP she saw people selling bullion bars several centimetres long to gold dealers when she was offloading her jewellery.
From Barron's
Karoon has been running a process to sell a 30%-40% stake in Neon with a view to using a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel at the site.
“As such with limited material capex on the horizon and Black Butte potentially offloaded, we expect material returns from August,” analyst Levi Spry says.
In a process known as “cognitive offloading,” we might become less capable of doing the stuff our AI can handle.
Thus Napoleon offloaded French Louisiana to the U.S. in 1803 partly because he needed to fund his wars in Europe.
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