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Recent Examples of e-mail
Noun
An 18-year-old consumer in Michigan lost $4,800 this summer to a 'transfer it to protect it' scam after receiving an email from someone impersonating his bank. Susan Tompor, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025 Companies that expect responses to emails late at night, or discourage staff from taking time off, create the conditions for burnout. Justin Sablich, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 Newsweek has contacted Australia's Department of Defense for comment by email. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025 Newsweek contacted Costco and the ADF for comment via online inquiry form and Inspire Investing by email for comment on Friday outside regular office hours. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for e-mail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for e-mail
Noun
  • Notifications are expected to be sent via mail by Sept. 2.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Russia is the latest in a series of countries that have recently announced the suspension of some or most mail services to the U.S., citing uncertainty and confusion over tariffs.
    Dan Gooding Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Chairman Jerome Powell telegraphed resuming the Fed’s interest rate cutting campaign from pre-election meetings last Fall (a 50 basis points cut could find some legs too).
    Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
  • A day earlier, at the event with Indiana Democrats at Marquette Park on Chicago’s South Side, Texas state Rep. Gene Wu of Houston, who leads the Democratic caucus in his chamber, also telegraphed how his members intended to claim victory, regardless of whether their state adopts the GOP map.
    Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • From postcards and posters to snow globes and accessories, the towers were a frequent motif in pop culture and consumer design.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Instead of online or telephone reservations, hopeful diners need to mail the restaurant a postcard with their request to visit, including name, address, phone number, email and booking season.
    Duncan Madden, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Students and faculty soon developed software and processes that later turned into electronic commerce and electronic mail.
    SHANE GREENSTEIN, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2016
  • 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
Noun
  • Earlier this summer, Trump sued the elder Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal (which is owned by News Corp.) over an article the newspaper ran about a birthday card Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.
    Martina Di Licosa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Guevara has legal authorization to work in the United States but does not hold a permanent resident card, advocates say.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025

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“E-mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/e-mail. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

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