variants
or in-box
plural inboxes or in-boxes
1
: a box or tray (as on a desk) for holding incoming interoffice mail
2
: a computer folder devoted to incoming email
One of my favorite rituals soon became scanning our email inbox, looking for your photographs … and reading the letters you sent …—
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Alex Harring, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Wiatrowski said the ideas behind Jace eventually led to Victor when the team realized that the email inbox was not the most optimal place for an AI agent.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 19 May 2026
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—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 19 May 2026
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—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
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—Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
But the haiku in my inbox was unexpected.
—Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 19 May 2026
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—Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 18 May 2026
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“Inbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inbox. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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in-box
noun
: a receptacle for incoming letters between offices in an organization
also
: a computer folder for incoming email
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