shipload

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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The following year, a consortium of Canadian farmers arranged to import a shipload of Russian fertilizer through Churchill’s port, saving about 10 percent on the standard cost.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2021

The shipload of equipment is just the latest frustration Russians are having with a leader they claim is out of touch.

From Fox News • Apr. 22, 2020

In 1944, Gruber agitated for an assignment from the Roosevelt administration to secretly escort a shipload of Jewish refugees from Naples, Italy to the United States.

From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2016

When our entire fortune was lost to the surging waters of the Bistrifa—a shipload of fabric and ready-made clothes gone in an instant—he returned to his former career.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros