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or memoranda
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as in notices
a written communication giving information or directions
I'm waiting for the memorandum that will explain the new vacation policy
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as in letters
a message on paper from one person or group to another
the studio executives depend on endless memoranda to keep track of what's going on at a movie shot on location
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Recent Examples of memorandums
The city has signed memorandums of understanding with other law enforcement entities in accordance with California laws to share information, Cortez said.
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Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Sheriff's offices in Laurel, McCracken and Pendleton counties, along with police departments in Hickman, Falmouth and Winchester signed memorandums of agreement with ICE in the first month of the year.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
There are dozens of these interview memorandums.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 2 Jan. 2026
The team pored over 7,000 pages of internal memoranda, technical reports, oral histories, and unpublished documents.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
Presidential national security powers Executive memoranda instruct government officials and agencies by delegating tasks and directing agency actions.
—Melinda Haas, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
But like parts of memorandums past, these elements may morph into something more practical, or disappear entirely, in the months after any deal is signed.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
Attorneys representing Swift and her co-defendants in a copyright infringement case said a court rule limits motions and accompanying memorandums to 20 pages, unless the court allows the motion to exceed the page limit.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne has forged a major three-year partnership with the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), signing multiple memorandums of understanding aimed at deepening ties between the Australian and Indian screen sectors.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Sheriff's offices in Laurel, McCracken and Pendleton counties, along with police departments in Hickman, Falmouth and Winchester signed memorandums of agreement with ICE in the first month of the year.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
There are dozens of these interview memorandums.
—Stephen Fowler, NPR, 2 Jan. 2026
The team pored over 7,000 pages of internal memoranda, technical reports, oral histories, and unpublished documents.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
Presidential national security powers Executive memoranda instruct government officials and agencies by delegating tasks and directing agency actions.
—Melinda Haas, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
But like parts of memorandums past, these elements may morph into something more practical, or disappear entirely, in the months after any deal is signed.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
Attorneys representing Swift and her co-defendants in a copyright infringement case said a court rule limits motions and accompanying memorandums to 20 pages, unless the court allows the motion to exceed the page limit.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne has forged a major three-year partnership with the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), signing multiple memorandums of understanding aimed at deepening ties between the Australian and Indian screen sectors.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorandums
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Duffy and many of his neighbors got eviction notices when a large company purchased their apartment complex late last year.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
24 Apr. 2026
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The posts were hit with copyright notices, but the film already has gone viral, with other users sharing it.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2026
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Words must be of four or more letters.—
Kathleen Saxe,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2026
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As many as a dozen letters — including one from the NBA — were submitted by the attorney for Aspiration Partners co-founder Joe Sanberg ahead of his sentencing Monday in an effort to persuade the judge to trim the 17 years prosecutors have requested for each of the two counts of fraud.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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On set, the assistant director translated the notes, and within seconds the cast had launched into another take.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Once the jumbotron came around, fans no longer needed to check their notes to see how each hitter had done in their previous at-bats or if a no-hitter remained alive.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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These allegations returned to the spotlight earlier this month when the New York Times reported that the liberal payment processor’s own lawyers stated in internal memos that ActBlue may have misled Congress about the strength of its security protocols.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Apr. 2026
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The app also enables people to add photos, voice memos and various other personalized features to their documents — appealing even to those who aren’t necessarily making a choice to be sustainable but are drawn in by the ease.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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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.—
byDebbie Carlson,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Mar. 2026
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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
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Do notations always converge like this on something dominant?—
John Pavlus,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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Some plaintiffs are also asking that all disciplinary notations from their academic files be removed.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
10 Feb. 2026
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Bass has previously announced directives regarding strategic LAPD deployment, including in March after a brawl broke out in connection to a street takeover near upscale apartments in downtown.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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If demand rises faster than infrastructure can be approved and built, reliability erodes, reserve margins thin, queues lengthen, delays compound, costs rise, and strategic directives become harder to realize.—
Dan Romito,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Apr. 2026
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Expect sudden messages or changes in plans.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Google, LinkedIn and Wikipedia are among hundreds of websites and apps where Meta plans to capture employee keystrokes and mouse clicks as part of a project to train its artificial intelligence models, according to internal messages viewed by CNBC.—
Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Memorandums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorandums. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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