electronic mail

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Recent Examples of electronic mail This routing process is not unlike what happens with electronic mail or any other piece of data sent through the internet. Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2024 The Act at Civil Code Section 4910 bars taking action outside of board meetings except for emergencies, and bars conducting meetings via electronic mail. Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023 The authors of the original Internet protocols, who began their pioneering work in the late 1960s, designed them for a network to be used mainly for sending electronic mail from one computer to another. Glenn Edens, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2017 Students and faculty soon developed software and processes that later turned into electronic commerce and electronic mail. Shane Greenstein, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2016 See All Example Sentences for electronic mail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for electronic mail
Noun
  • The letter wasn’t just junk mail.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There’s something freeing and peaceful when things are in their place, the kitchen bar is free of junk mail and dishes are off countertops, stacked in the dishwasher.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • In addition to first-class stamps, the price hike will affect metered letters (from 69 cents to 74 cents), international postage (from $1.65 to $1.70) and domestic postal cards (from 56 cents to 62 cents).
    David Chiu, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The California redistricting measure is expected to pass, after Democrats built a massive mail vote lead.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Assemblymember Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, authored the 2021 law to make California a vote-by-mail state.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Loretta Claiborne, the chief inspiration officer at the organization, wrote the rocker an open letter.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Loretta Claiborne, chief inspiration officer for the Special Olympics — the world’s largest sporting organization for people with intellectual disabilities — addressed Rock’s use of the slur in an open letter shared earlier this week.
    Kate Reilly, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But if the government doesn't reopen soon, these cards will not be loaded.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The technology included corrupt automatic shuffling machines that read cards and predicted which player had the best hand.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The sequence also has literal Easter eggs during its climactic postcard showing the explosion at Ironworks, which took place during an Easter egg hunt in 1908.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Even Portugal—known primarily for its postcard-perfect summer-by-the-sea vacations—has a small mountain!
    Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Electronic mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/electronic%20mail. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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