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mailers

noun

plural of mailer
as in letters

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Recent Examples of mailers The state party said the mailers were specific to the runoff election, and that an additional mailer has been sent to voters with a primary ballot application. — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mailers
  1. letters
  2. postcards
  3. messages
  4. mails
  5. cards
  6. missives
  7. epistles
  8. dispatches
Noun
  • There was some experimenting with the memoir being all letters, one big letter, or placed interstitially among narrative, but there were always going to be the letters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • This is a major win for the lowrider community, which submitted more than 1,700 letters in support of the bill.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of letters
Noun
  • The instructions even say that while packages are X-rayed, greeting cards and postcards are not, which is why the journalist chose to embed the tracker in a postcard.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of postcards
Noun
  • Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 A bigger world is calling, but the unread messages aren’t going anywhere.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The 311 app will receive messages and respond on the next business day.
    — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of messages
Noun
  • The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, mails free, high-quality books to children across the country and around the world once a month from birth to age 5.
    — Kristy High, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Each month, the book gifting program mails free books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of their family’s income.
    — Devarrick Turner, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of mails
Noun
  • So many have left him since — his dear friend Joe Marconi, his radio partner Mike Pyle and his fierce rival in golf, cards and racquetball, Dan Reeves.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The goal is to create unique art pieces like cards and bookmarks.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of cards
Noun
  • The Sherwood Forest Zine Library occupies an Austin living room, and includes dozens and dozens of print missives on everything from capitalism to magick.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
  • A couple days ago, as the media frenzy continued, Wolff decided to release full letters that Harp had sent to Trump during his last Presidential campaign, missives that had reportedly alarmed the Secret Service.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of missives
Noun
  • 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.
    — byDebbie Carlson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
  • While hunkered down in the trenches of World War I, a Greek scholar translated some of Paul’s epistles.
    — Robin Hoagland, Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2025
Definition of epistles
Noun
  • Xinhua News has issued official reports about the disaster and technical dispatches about the science of the glacial lakes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Once Lamb starts publishing daily dispatches about her abduction at the hands of Indo‑Trinidadian radicals demanding a ransom, the writing is on the walls that this woman is going to die.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispatches

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“Mailers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mailers. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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