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e-mail

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verb

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Recent Examples of e-mail
Noun
An e-mail address associated with a substack newsletter Thomas created bounced. Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025 Be sure each traveler’s phone number and e-mail address in your party are attached to the reservation. Essence, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
Some of the most interesting evidence was gleaned from e-mail communications between McGovern and other members of the Kinahan cartel. Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026 Sources are therefore actors outside the news organization itself who provide information subsidies and can be actors who are interviewed by e-mail, in person, or by telephone, as well as documents containing relevant information. Florian Wintterlin, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for e-mail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for e-mail
Noun
  • More than 500,000 Maryland voters requested mail ballots.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 19 May 2026
  • To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • To those in the know, the pregnancy statues themselves also telegraph self-love, even if the result is (quite literally) navel-gazey.
    Elizabeth Kiefer, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2026
  • Tenderness is fleeting yet precious among boys desperate to telegraph masculine strength.
    Judy Berman, Time, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • The characterful 850-year-old property is in the postcard-perfect town of Oberau, surrounded by pure air, pristine peaks, and crowd-free forest trails that inevitably propel guests towards a stress-busting nature immersion.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026
  • The couple was shocked the postcard led to a police visit.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • In response, seven former EEOC officials sent Lucas an open letter via electronic mail on March 18, 2025.
    Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Eight years later, AOL introduced its own version of electronic mail services, email addresses, a Windows version and access to the rest of the Internet for its users.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Not only that, but there are plenty of flat-rate cash-back cards that earn at least 2% back on all purchases and have no annual fee.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 25 May 2026
  • In Housewives’ land, the women air-kiss one another, keeping their cards close to their chests, using nastier pieces of gossip as individual bullets, ready to fire when necessary.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 25 May 2026

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“E-mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/e-mail. Accessed 26 May. 2026.

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