text message

noun

: a short message sent electronically usually from one cell phone to another

Examples of text message in a Sentence

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No Big Bend Wall, wrote in a text message Monday afternoon. Lexi Salazar, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026 The notification sound of the incoming text message wakes the guy up. Agnieszka Szpila, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026 The Federal Trade Commission says Americans lost hundreds of millions of dollars to job scams in recent years, and text message recruitment scams are rising fast. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Mar. 2026 Standing in my kitchen decades later, looking at the text message, the same feeling of nausea washed over me. Dawn Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for text message

Word History

First Known Use

1993, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of text message was in 1993

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“Text message.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/text%20message. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.

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text message

noun
: a short message sent electronically usually from one cell phone to another
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