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as in to transmit
to cause (something) to pass from one to another
intends to personally convey the message to the governor
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as in to cede
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
upon her death, the house will be conveyed to a predesignated charity
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Recent Examples of convey
The scale is important because one of Rowe’s main goals on the series is to convey Mattie’s point of view through his production design.
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
To watch dancing is intrinsically delightful, and Flanagan, without doing anything exceptional with the camera, conveys a spectatorial sense of that delight.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The opening acoustic guitar plucks get strong low-mid resonance to sound nice and big, while the higher frequencies receive enough attention to convey string texture.
—PC Magazine, 16 June 2025
The band conveyed cheerfulness, along with an apology, to fans in posting about the changes on Instagram.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 June 2025
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 18 June 2025
To watch dancing is intrinsically delightful, and Flanagan, without doing anything exceptional with the camera, conveys a spectatorial sense of that delight.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The opening acoustic guitar plucks get strong low-mid resonance to sound nice and big, while the higher frequencies receive enough attention to convey string texture.
—PC Magazine, 16 June 2025
The band conveyed cheerfulness, along with an apology, to fans in posting about the changes on Instagram.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for convey
Verb
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The thalamus acts as a control center and transmits sensory signals to various areas of the cerebral cortex.—
Christian Wolf,
Scientific American,
25 June 2025
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West Nile is often transmitted from the Culex house mosquito, a medium-sized mosquito that is typically brown in color.—
Katherine Weaver,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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Just days before Nasrallah’s demise, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, Mossad, activated a hack attack that caused explosions of handheld pagers carried by thousands of members of Hezbollah.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
23 June 2025
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Blue Ghost will land on the lunar far side carrying LuSee Night, which will deploy directly from the spacecraft.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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That’s because the SLAM academy is legally a public school, though run privately, which clears the way for the city to cede property to it.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
26 June 2025
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Four months after fans of the James Bond franchise decried the deal struck between Amazon MGM with producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to cede creative control of the 007 franchise, hope has arrived in the form of famed director Denis Villeneuve.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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Mamdani held the advantage of being a media-savvy millennial who appeared singularly cognizant of the benefits of harnessing the internet to spread his message in a race where Cuomo held the power of instant name recognition.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
25 June 2025
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Thousands will be rounded up, tortured, and executed as the regime spreads fear to survive.—
Siamak Namazi,
Time,
25 June 2025
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Just think about where your luggage has been; it gets hauled through airports, goes for a ride on a conveyor belt, rolls across dusty parking lots, is stashed into overhead bins, and is often handled by multiple people with no guarantee of clean hands.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2025
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Those were frugal, pragmatic solutions; every stone that could be reused was another one that didn’t have to be quarried, cut, hauled, and placed.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
27 June 2025
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The Mountain West Conference hired Willkie Farr & Gallagher to lead the investigation, and Heaphy was assigned to lead it.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
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Two years ago, he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to the West LA division.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
24 June 2025
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The Senate version gives the Secretary of the Treasury authority to oversee the scholarship granting organizations that would administer the voucher funds.—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Leo season gives us a chance to self-prioritize, stand out, and find our inner shine again.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 July 2025
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The levels of perspective framework developed by Dr. Daniel Kim, who's an advisor for my company, brings mental models to the surface for alignment so that organizations can create the right systemic structures.—
Thomas Lim,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The storms may bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and penny-sized hail (0.75 inches).—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
26 June 2025
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“Convey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/convey. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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