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[ship] / ʃɪp /


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LTL shippers serve primarily industrial customers that don’t need a full truck to ship goods over relatively short distances.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

First, they can summon a feeling of “Ooooo, how did she do that?”—of the kind one experiences when looking at, say, a ship in a bottle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Whether that happened is debatable; what is not is that “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” also influenced him, manifesting in the lyrics’ repeated invitation to “Take a ride in the sky/On our ship, fantasize.”

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrey Fedyaev, who arrived on the ISS in February, had been sheltering on the docked ship, along with another astronaut Chris Williams.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Off the coast of Greenland, Kane and his crew were finally rescued by a passing merchant ship and later transferred to the American rescue vessel.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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