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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Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 17 Nov. 2025
Buried deep in the House Oversight Committee’s recent release of 20,000 emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox is an 8,684-word profile of the disgraced financier.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 17 Nov. 2025
If this newsletter isn't already getting conveniently delivered to your inbox, click here to subscribe.
—Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
Sign up to receive it in your inbox.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
Knowing that, my first thought is that your inbox is punished by all the time zones.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
Sign up here to get it in your inbox.
—Jr Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Do your office, inbox and calendar feel like a ghost town on Friday afternoons?
—Christos Makridis, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2025
Look for this newsletter in your inbox Monday through Friday.
—Matt Hayes, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2025
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“Inbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inbox. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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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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