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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
  • The letters cite stories on construction details related to the East Wing bunker, funding for the White House ballroom, munitions stockpiles impacted by the Iran war and sanctions against Russia.
    — Josh Feldman, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2026
  • For cases such as the one described in this recent post in which cats are being fed on private property within an association community, violation notices as well as cease and desist letters are the most common initial responses.
    — Michael L. Hyman, Miami Herald, 23 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
  • The company said one researcher exchanged thousands of messages with its AI systems about improving the mammalian transmission of a highly lethal bird flu virus.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2026
  • With fewer in-person organizers, some groups are also focusing on social media and partnering with liberal content creators to boost their messages.
    — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 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
  • In the aforementioned game room, there are a variety of board games, cards, dice, and even a pool table to complement the chess set in the lobby.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In Celebrity Sequence, teams select cards on a giant game board and answer polling questions with help from one of three celebrities.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 23 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
  • Ada Scott, an elderly reporter who was close to retirement, regularly wrote glowing dispatches about Puente in the 1960s for The East Yolo Record, a newspaper that operated in what is now West Sacramento.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In the spirit of snacking, here are bite-sized dispatches from some of the Vogue team’s favorite foods at fashion week.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispatches

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“Mailers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mailers. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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