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Recent Examples of shipment
In May, Fremont police and CHP officers reportedly formed a convoy around an Omni Logistics shipment headed to San Jose after noticing the truck was being tailed by a suspicious vehicle authorities had previously been surveilling as part of the investigation.
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
Lepidopterist Joana Meier of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a leader of Project Psyche, packs the abdomen of a moth into a vial for shipment from Italy to the institute in England.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
The organization is accepting donations of cash and equipment including turn-key renewable power, water and shelter technologies for rapid shipment.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
The Healey administration’s Western Massachusetts Deputy Director Lamar Cook was arrested after State Police intercepted a cocaine shipment at the Springfield State Office, the Hampden DA’s office announced Wednesday.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipment
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Three interior pockets keep everything organized, while the tote’s zip closure ensures your precious cargo stays secure.—
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Later that night, Pine visits the weapons site with his former hotel colleague and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who rig the cargo trucks with cell-phone detonating explosives.—
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Collins Aerospace will produce and deliver three full-rate production kits known as high-power transmit set modernization (HPTS-M) packages.—
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So what are Oklahoma residents supposed to do if a mystery package arrives?—
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If approved by federal regulators, the merger would create the nation's first transcontinental railroad company controlling nearly half of American rail freight.—
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Echo Global Logistics is rolling out customs brokerage services for cross-border freight swapped between the North American countries.—
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Excavators will support autonomous trenching, loading, grading, and related operations.—
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For top-loading machines, never fill laundry past the agitator.—
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Gafford, who was recently reinserted into the starting lineup alongside Davis, will be called upon to shoulder more of the load on both ends of the floor, particularly defensively.—
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As more loads were seized through the summer and fall of 2024, Wedding began to rely increasingly on one of Toronto’s most colorful criminal defense attorneys, Deepak Paradkar, for information, according to the indictment.—
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Investigators believe the fire started when a combine harvester in an agricultural field sent up some sort of sparks and ignited hay bales.—
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In terms of exports, the only change over 100,000 bales was for Mali (-150,000 bales to 900,000).—
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The mother of three said that when her stepmom read her application packet things went south.—
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Hird notes that usually a packet of seeds costs far less than a bunch of fresh herbs from the grocery store, and that seed packet will produce many plants.—
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Cargill built a large soybean-lading facility at Santarem, some 500 miles up the Amazon.—
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One example can be as simple as shipments that are missing bills of lading or origin documents.—
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“Shipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipment. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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