shipload

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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The price of a shipload of L.N.G., which might have sold for $20 million two years ago, soared to perhaps $200 million last summer, and is now about half that, with winter fast approaching.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The shipload of equipment is just the latest frustration Russians are having with a leader they claim is out of touch.

From Fox News • Apr. 22, 2020

In 1944, Gruber agitated for an assignment from the Roosevelt administration to secretly escort a shipload of Jewish refugees from Naples, Italy to the United States.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2016

A shipload of sick people was coming upriver.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson