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Recent Examples of message
Noun
The next day, Friend A messaged again with an update. Ashley Vega, People.com, 26 July 2025 In response, Lombardi messaged them, calling them cowards. Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Verb
The best films have a clear, complete message or final twist. Bogdan Nesvit, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025 Kate Middleton and Prince William, who are currently on a private summer break, issued an emotional message praising the sacrifice of the wartime generation. Stephanie Petit, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for message
Recent Examples of Synonyms for message
Noun
  • According to the dispatch call on the day of his death, police and medics were called to Hogan's house in Clearwater Beach, Fla. at 9:51 a.m. for a person suffering cardiac arrest.
    Natasha Dye, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Although the magazine had published dispatches from brilliant war correspondents, including Janet Flanner, it was still widely considered a weightless amusement.
    Jane Mayer, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Over the past two decades, the DTC sales model has revolutionized the way Americans buy everything from mattresses to contact lenses.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The stabbing marked the city’s 15th homicide of the year investigated by San Jose police, a total that has since risen to 17. Anyone with information about the July 20 homicide can contact the SJPD homicide unit at 408-277-5283 or email Detective Sgt.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The letter placed at his door Friday admonished him for that vote and called on him to vote against cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and public education when Congress returns to Washington, D.C., in September.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2025
  • In Tarrant County overall, more than third of the public school campuses — 35% — saw improvements in their letter grades, according to the Commit Partnership.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Rowland also took inspiration from his competitive motorsport background to approach shooting the various chase scenes.
    Logan Holland, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Historians tend to approach the era’s mysticism and invented names with understandable tact—after all, Harlemites had as much right to adopt Islamic personas as their Jewish Zionist contemporaries did when assuming new Hebrew names.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • An abundance mindset reshapes both nonprofit operations and communications.
    Yujia Zhu, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The decision was made to entrust this foreign legion with Israel’s most sophisticated equipment for paramilitary operations and communications.
    Yossi Melman, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • So, the parents called a relative to pick up the boy while the parents boarded the aircraft.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Hastings boarded the project earlier this year as executive producer, marking his first major foray into feature film producing.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In Ohio, maps must be redrawn due to a quirk of state law – which may make the state’s delegation even more Republican and carve up two Democratic seats, according to a report in June from CNN’s Fredreka Schouten.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Scouting report: Huhn has committed to play for Penn State.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Professors receive hundreds of emails each week—students who communicate clearly and respectfully stand out immediately.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • When the grant terminations began, two grants-management officials told me, officials were forbidden from communicating with researchers, even as their voicemails and inboxes flooded with panicked questions.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Message.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/message. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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