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airposts

noun

plural of airpost
as in special deliveries

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  1. snail mail
  2. mails
  3. matters
  4. correspondences
Noun
  • In the cold open of the first-season finale, the characters go through their backlog of snail mail, rushing through a series of updates on the show’s lingering story lines in imitation of a clip-show episode.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Back then, there was no eBay, and deals got done with snail mail money orders.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of snail mail
Noun
  • The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, mails free, high-quality books to children across the country and around the world once a month from birth to age 5.
    — Kristy High, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Each month, the book gifting program mails free books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of their family’s income.
    — Devarrick Turner, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of mails
Noun
  • Intimate affairs and conversations around money matters could also intensify.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Propulsion matters because an aircraft has to balance the power available to it against the demands of its mission.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of matters
Noun
  • Most moving, above all, are the correspondences with the writers themselves who reach out at their own expense—quite literally.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • From there, Langlands conjectured the existence of a family of correspondences between objects, symmetries, and properties.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of correspondences
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“Airposts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airposts. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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