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shipment

[ship-muhnt] / ˈʃɪp mənt /
NOUN
consignment
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STRONG




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Company owner Tatiana Kim has promised "not to abandon" the sellers, and she has offered temporary discounts and waived shipment fees, but this has done little to calm fears of further attacks.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Foreign Minister Yvan Gil meanwhile reported Sunday on his Telegram account that an aid shipment from Russia had arrived.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Each new shipment of sod that arrived in refrigerated trucks costs about $250,000 — and teams likely would have to replace that sod at least once during an NFL season.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

The boats are still being built, but Vela said it hopes to have five trimarans operating by 2030 to meet its once-a-week shipment goal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

“Wouldn’t you know it? We had a huge shipment of new chicks yesterday.”

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

After the war began it stepped up shipments via pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, which has allowed it export some three quarters of its pre-war level.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

The intense demand for server CPUs and rising memory-chip prices have cut into both PC production and shipments.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

The hefty duty would affect $20 billion of U.S.-bound Canadian exports, or 5% of total shipments to America.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Roughly 25% of all air cargo in the U.S. travels in the belly of commercial passenger jets, routinely exposing passengers to fire-prone shipments.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

There they do the hard manual labor of loading and unloading shipments onto trucks.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung




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