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Recent Examples of airmail
Noun
Staff found and destroyed eight of the erroneous sheets and shipped the other stamps to offices in Washington, New York and Philadelphia—the cities selected for the first airmail flights. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 The earliest airmail pilots flew biplanes like the Curtiss JN-4H, and manufacturers soon made special models for airmail. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020 Then send it by airmail to your brother in Medford. Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023 Receipts at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University show that Handler purchased 11 Lilli dolls in 1956 and later ordered another dozen via airmail. Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 25 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for airmail 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for airmail
Noun
  • The focus of the documentary is the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion, a U.S. Army battalion of 855 Black women that was sent during World War II to England and France to clear the backlog of mail in the European Theater of Operations.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Eligible individuals would have received a settlement notice via email or mail.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That document was sent by registered mail to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In ways that vary state by state, each state's electors then prepare six Certificates of Vote, which are sent by registered mail to the President of the U.S. Senate and the Archivist of the United States.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • The old law had required that the executor send you notice by registered or certified mail, and then provide proof of service to the court.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 30 July 2023
  • Resumes sent by registered or certified mail to the Metro Council Clerk, 601 W. Jefferson St., 40202, must be postmarked no later than March 3 and must be received in the clerk’s office within four business days after mailing.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 24 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • The Indiana Department of Environmental Management was not involved in Hammond’s correspondence to BP, the agency’s Public Information Officer Barry Sneed said in a statement.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The two men, who died on the same day in 1826, mended their friendship through correspondence.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025

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“Airmail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airmail. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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