unloaded

past tense of unload

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of unloaded Kahn’s heirs unloaded the place in 1939, a few years after his death, and it was chopped up over the years to serve as retirement housing for city workers, a military training compound, and a boarding school, per Forbes. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2026 No one exhaled until the cargo was unloaded, unswaddled, and confirmed to be in one piece. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Walter just unloaded his share in the Chelsea team of Premier League soccer. — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026 Both Republicans unloaded on Cooper's tenure as governor, with Trump blaming Cooper for a grisly North Carolina murder and accusing him of doing nothing to help the state after Hurricane Helene inflicted widespread damage in 2024. — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026 Roma then personally unloaded his son at the 30th Street morgue. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026 Texas does not have laws requiring guns to be stored locked and unloaded, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2026 The outspoken Jewish comedian unloaded on X, calling the performance a total nightmare while publicly questioning Sheeran’s decision to share a stage with the musician. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Once Outlaw arrived at Gentle Giants’ site, which has 400 acres of land across two facilities, he was unloaded into a pen and even walked into a stall all on his own. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloaded
Verb
  • Imagine your mom has just been discharged from the hospital to a rehabilitation center after hip replacement surgery.
    — Jennifer Schlinger, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The first takes place in 1889, when Adam is discharged after five years of service.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The fact that Amazon dumped the movie because of its alleged connection to OpenAI?
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • After Verity is killed and dumped in the lake near their home, Lowen and Jeremy seemingly continue on with a life together.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Ultimately, Taylor’s journey was a lesson in how simple pleasures are often the most enduring souvenirs—internal keepsakes that linger long after the last bag is unpacked.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The canopy and the fan assembly can be folded up and stored in a large rucksack for transportation, which can be unpacked and reassembled in eight minutes.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Responses with the error were discarded, as were voters who had already been attempted, and quotas were reset.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Technologies, markets, laws and cultural assumptions all determine what is discarded, what is kept and why.
    — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Last week, a regional television station interrupted a live broadcast for about 20 minutes after journalists evacuated to a shelter during an air raid warning.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base early Sunday as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swooped on the rural area.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Pitt ditched his signature whimsical style for a classic black suit moment.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The Boston Globe’s story about what happened when a lesbian bar in western Massachusetts ditched its mask mandate is worth the price of a subscription.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • By the end of Monday night, Caesars Superdome had largely emptied, and the vast majority of remaining seats were filled with fans donning red.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The pandemic, which emptied offices in 2020, deepened WeWork’s troubles.
    — Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • These outsiders, like executives or academics from different fields, offer crucial external perspectives, unburdened by internal assumptions or politics.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The very nature of the oral tradition, which is decidedly African and characteristically unburdened by the rules of Western record-keeping, is the spirit of its truth, even more than its detail.
    — Anne Haley, Time, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Unloaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unloaded. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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