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Recent Examples of payload Stellantis The Ram 1500 Ramcharger is advertised as delivering a 690-mile all-electric range, 14,000-pound maximum towing capacity, 2,625 maximum payload capacity and 647 horsepower. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025 This payload would be in itself historic because it is believed to have included just one item – a jar of Vegemite. David Szondy july 30, New Atlas, 30 July 2025 At the same time, the American space agency is still pressing ahead with its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS, colloquially called ‘Clips’), capitalizing on the lower costs of the private sector to deliver science and tech payloads to the Moon. Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2025 The first were light gray-colored craft flying low and relatively slow to their targets, carrying high-explosive and fragmentation payloads and powered by turbines. David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for payload
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Noun
  • The ferrying cargo ships became high-value targets themselves.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The contest on day 34 had the final six separated into two teams of three that would race across a series of seesaws and up and through a cargo net tower before digging up a hatchet and chopping a rope.
    EW.com, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • A lot goes into maintaining the health of pitchers whose arms bear extreme stress loads, over and over, beginning in March.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Fox, too, remains an offensive load: double drags, tosses, whatever.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Council members asked the developer to address height concerns, add more than one parking space for loading and deliveries, and to rework window placements to address privacy issues.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The researchers measured knee pain, knee loading, and cartilage microstructure (using MRI scanning) at regular intervals over 12 months.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Other systems are better thought of as convenience features—things like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping, which relieve some of the burden of driving.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Weitzman said the free adoptions for Clear the Shelters Day on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., as well as the reason for adoption fees being halved for the rest of the month, is to help alleviate some of this financial burden.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Payload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payload. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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