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the postman comes at around nine every morning
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Among Maricopa County’s four winners: a 12th grader who wants to be an actor, a 7th grader who wants to be an Olympic climber, a 5th grader who wants to be a dancer and author and a kindergartner who wants to be a postman.
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Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
Hamid Khan Hussain Khel is one of the country’s 400 postmen, zipping around the capital on a motorcycle bearing Afghan Post’s jaunty blue and yellow.
—Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Today, 80% of avocados consumed in the US come from Mexico, and 95% of them bear the name of Hass, the California postman.
—thehustle.co, 5 Apr. 2024
According to industry lore, Rudolph Hass, a postman and amateur horticulturalist in Southern California, stumbled on a new variety in the late 1920s while trying to propagate a variety called Rideout.
—Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
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Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
Hamid Khan Hussain Khel is one of the country’s 400 postmen, zipping around the capital on a motorcycle bearing Afghan Post’s jaunty blue and yellow.
—Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Today, 80% of avocados consumed in the US come from Mexico, and 95% of them bear the name of Hass, the California postman.
—thehustle.co, 5 Apr. 2024
According to industry lore, Rudolph Hass, a postman and amateur horticulturalist in Southern California, stumbled on a new variety in the late 1920s while trying to propagate a variety called Rideout.
—Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
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“Postman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postman. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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postman
noun
post·man
ˈpōs(t)-mən 
-ˌman
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