Load
Load noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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In the first Christopher Reeve movie, he becomes the load-bearing support for the entire Pacific tectonic plate.
Source: Load-Bearing Hero -
Notably averted in Black Hawk Down, when the US soldiers remove the reinforced steel plate from their kevlar body armor before the mission to lighten their load.
Source: Bullet Proof Vest -
And of course, there are numerous bugs surrounding fossil mining that can easily result in the Museum Plate being Lost Forever, including abandoning a fossil load.
Source: Video Game / Steambot Chronicles
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