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shipment

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




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Authorities in Cook County, Ill., recovered part of a stolen shipment of Red Bull worth $300,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

On Friday, the first shipment of Russian oil departed on a tanker headed to the U.S.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

The first shipment under the agreement will leave Russia "in two to three days", Putin said during the meeting, as quoted by state news agency TASS.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“However, neither company called it out as a material factor in their shipment growth during the course of the year,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

For the next half hour, Ariana had me go through a shipment of strawberries and pick out all of the rotten ones.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

According to an estimate by Goldman Sachs, the first shipments of Russian diesel might pare diesel prices in the U.S. by no more than two to five cents per gallon at the pump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Bangladesh's main manufacturer associations for garments and knitwear warned that "prolonged unrest could disrupt production, delay export shipments and affect Bangladesh's commitments to international buyers", the state-run BSS news agency said on Monday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Even before Intel’s report, third-party estimates indicated industrywide PC shipments were down by some 20% in the third quarter relative to the same period a year earlier.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

QatarEnergy extended force majeure on liquefied-natural-gas shipments for Edison, one of its biggest European customers, until the end of December.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Neglecting the new shipments delivered to the storage room, she began hounding us for recipes, for vermicelli pudding and papaya stew, and inscribed them in crooked letters in the pages of her inventory ledger.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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