as in epistles
a message on paper from one person or group to another
he faithfully wrote her a letter every week they were apart
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as in landlords
the owner of land or housing that is rented to another
it is the letter of the apartment—not the lessee—who is responsible for basic repair and upkeep
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Recent Examples of letters
Literary Hub,
25 June 2026
The Sacramento Bee requested the lobbyist position letters for the first two iterations of the climate bill.
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Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
Brenda, a Honduran woman whose 12-year-old daughter has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, said the letters posed a great conundrum to parents like her.
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Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
25 June 2026
These can be 4 to 7 letters long.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The department has also opened Title IX investigations in North Carolina and Michigan and issued warning letters to school districts in Colorado and Kansas.
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Jt Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent letters Wednesday to the contractors overseeing the renovation at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, requesting information such as contracts and water quality records.
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Lauren Peller,
ABC News,
24 June 2026
The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past.
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Robert Parkinson,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
Words must be of four or more letters.
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Kathleen Saxe,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
Noun
Note that this was long before the split of V and U into two separate letters, hence some modern disagreement over their offspring’s name.
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Literary Hub,
25 June 2026
The Sacramento Bee requested the lobbyist position letters for the first two iterations of the climate bill.
—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
25 June 2026
Brenda, a Honduran woman whose 12-year-old daughter has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, said the letters posed a great conundrum to parents like her.
—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
25 June 2026
These can be 4 to 7 letters long.
—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The department has also opened Title IX investigations in North Carolina and Michigan and issued warning letters to school districts in Colorado and Kansas.
—
Jt Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
25 June 2026
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent letters Wednesday to the contractors overseeing the renovation at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, requesting information such as contracts and water quality records.
—
Lauren Peller,
ABC News,
24 June 2026
The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past.
—
Robert Parkinson,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
Words must be of four or more letters.
—
Kathleen Saxe,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for letters
Noun
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The main theme of the letters over time emphasizes long-term value creation, but the epistles have drawn criticism from the political left and right.
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While hunkered down in the trenches of World War I, a Greek scholar translated some of Paul’s epistles.
Noun
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That being said, the Senate passed bipartisan housing affordability bill that's going to try and keep Wall Street landlords out of home buying or particular forms of home buying.
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The bill would reduce federal regulations, streamline environmental reviews, speed up the construction process and curb the influence of corporate landlords by limiting their ability to purchase single-family homes.
Verb
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The new channel, the clever funnel, the ad that prints money.
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This is a company that prints more revenue every time the tape gets chaotic, and 2026 has given it plenty of chaos to work with.
Noun
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If feedback comes from an authority figure, keep your tone steady and translate their notes into a next step.
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
Verb
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Sarah Rothschild pens the screenplay with Elizabeth Cantillon producing.
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Amazon moved fast to board the project and the film will now be a big priority at the studio as Loeb pens the script.
Verb
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Abridge inks deals with Eli Lilly, Nvidia.
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Volkswagen inks Iron Dome deal in defense pivot Volkswagen is pivoting from cars to military tech at one of its factories, a reflection of the challenges facing Germany’s auto sector.
Verb
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Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.
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Nolan writes and directs, reuniting with some of his frequent below-the-line collaborators including cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema and composer Ludwig Göransson.
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“Letters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/letters. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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