mailed

past tense of mail
as in posted
to send through the postal system if you don't mail that letter soon, it's going to arrive late

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Recent Examples of mailed In 1938, millions of Americans mailed dimes to the White House to support President Roosevelt’s fight against polio — funding the first successful vaccine and sparking a culture of small-dollar giving. Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025 Voters can print the official petition at home on one sheet of ordinary letter-sized paper or fill out a form to have the petition mailed to them. Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025 Police later recovered surveillance footage of the package being mailed from a post office in San Francisco, allegedly by a woman who matched the description of a family member Addleman frequently contacted. Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025 Copies of the letter were mailed in print, delivered by certified post, and accompanied by cards linking to the full text and signatures. John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Out of 155 million votes cast in 2024, nearly 47 million were mailed in, according to the Election Assistance Commission. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025 The postcards, mailed this week, are aimed at updating and making sure the voter rolls are accurate, said Ternesha Womack, a spokeswoman for the clerk's office. Arkansas Online, 20 Aug. 2025 Nearly 424,000 people mailed their ballots. Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025 The claim can also be mailed and must be received or postmarked by the deadline date. Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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posted
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  • In 2013-14, eight Premier League clubs posted an operating loss; in 2023-24, that figure was up to 18 of the 20.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Mailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mailed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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