as in payload
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon
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Recent Examples of cargo
Just remember, your body is precious cargo that relishes healthy routine.
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Using those small boats, Iran seized two cargo ships this week.
—Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
So yes, maritime logistics has been affected, but air cargo has really shot up.
—Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
The move unfolded a day after Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards attacked three cargo ships in the strait, capturing two of them, in an assault that raised new concerns about the safety of shipping through the waterway.
—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Using those small boats, Iran seized two cargo ships this week.
—Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
So yes, maritime logistics has been affected, but air cargo has really shot up.
—Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
The move unfolded a day after Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards attacked three cargo ships in the strait, capturing two of them, in an assault that raised new concerns about the safety of shipping through the waterway.
—Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cargo
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SpaceX early on in the rocket’s career gave up trying to recover the center stage on Falcon Heavy flights, so that middle booster will instead fall into the Atlantic after its finishes the job of pushing the ViaSat payload on its way to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Apr. 2026
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The idea would be for robots like it to construct structures in low-to-zero gravity that are normally too large to carry as a payload in rockets or other spacecraft.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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An alternative would be a one-time tax increase, placing a significant financial burden on Chicagoans in a single year — clearly an unacceptable approach.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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What changed was not her income, but her energy burden.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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The port of Fujairah (the end-point of the UAE pipeline) also came under attack from Iranian drones, disrupting oil loading operations at its crude export terminal.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2026
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Use a front-loading washing machine or a top-loading washing machine without an agitator.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
22 Apr. 2026
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Managing the ins and outs of a family’s life is no small task, but fortunately, these mothers no longer have to manage this mental load on their own.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Engineers can simulate movements, loads, and environmental conditions before real deployment.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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But the new traffic data the railroads analyzed from all the major freight railroads convinced executives that more job growth is likely.—
Josh Funk,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Delivered to Union Pacific in 1941, the locomotive was among 25 built to haul wartime freight across the Continental Divide in Wyoming and Utah.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cargo. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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