unload
Example Sentences
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But as investors piled into tech, stoking fears of a bubble, Berkshire unloaded some of its Apple position, selling more than 60 million shares in the second and third quarters.
It insisted that the shipment in question "did not include any weapons, and that the vehicles unloaded were not intended for any Yemeni party but were shipped for use by Emirati forces operating in Yemen".
From BBC
The weapons and vehicles were unloaded from two ships that had left the Emirati port of Fujairah and had disabled their tracking systems, Saudi officials said.
The ship moved on to Freeport, Texas, in late September, and then to Kingston, Jamaica, in early October, unloading two cranes at each port.
Several times a month, tankers unload tens of thousands of barrels of oil products at a Turkish storage terminal in the port city of Mersin.
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