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as in letters
a message on paper from one person or group to another
a long series of memos between the two authors collaborating on the book
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as in memoranda
a written communication giving information or directions
the visiting leader received a series of urgent memos from the country's ambassador prior to the summit
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Recent Examples of memos
While these steps are promising, the OIG emphasized that temporary surge staff and policy memos are not enough.
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The Folsom Fire Department proposed reassigning firefighters away from serving a critical fire station as questions swirl over potential cuts to city departments amid a multimillion dollar budget deficit, according to internal memos.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Once again, Leonard is calling for extending open records laws to the executive and legislative branches, allowing the public to see official correspondence, staff memos and reports, calendars, travel records and more, according to an outline of Leonard's accountability and ethics package.
—Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The information that the victims want released are the internal Justice department memos and videos taken from inside the Epstein homes.
—Robert Alexander
matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Meetings twice a week with hundreds of city attorneys across the country trying to keep up with a stream of memos, executive orders and court decisions.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
But the court, in its emergency-docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
The memos come after The News revealed Thursday that Holmes sidelined her Chief Information Officer Razwan Mirza while at the same time hiring her niece, Demmi Slaughter, for a role in the department.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Each takes charge of a day of the week, leaving voice memos and diary entries for the others; their texts and transcripts form the book.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The Folsom Fire Department proposed reassigning firefighters away from serving a critical fire station as questions swirl over potential cuts to city departments amid a multimillion dollar budget deficit, according to internal memos.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Once again, Leonard is calling for extending open records laws to the executive and legislative branches, allowing the public to see official correspondence, staff memos and reports, calendars, travel records and more, according to an outline of Leonard's accountability and ethics package.
—Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The information that the victims want released are the internal Justice department memos and videos taken from inside the Epstein homes.
—Robert Alexander
matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Meetings twice a week with hundreds of city attorneys across the country trying to keep up with a stream of memos, executive orders and court decisions.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
But the court, in its emergency-docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
The memos come after The News revealed Thursday that Holmes sidelined her Chief Information Officer Razwan Mirza while at the same time hiring her niece, Demmi Slaughter, for a role in the department.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Each takes charge of a day of the week, leaving voice memos and diary entries for the others; their texts and transcripts form the book.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for memos
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Mendoza declined multiple requests for an interview and did not provide comments in response to ProPublica’s letters detailing the case.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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What two letters are favorites of pirates?—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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At the 2025 ceremony, Cristin Milioti, accepting for The Penguin, pulled out the back of her therapy notes.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Most recently, President Joe Biden chose him in 2021 to serve on his Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, Tribe's Harvard bio notes.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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As of mid-June, ICE had 649 memorandums of agreement covering law-enforcement agencies in 40 states.—
Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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Not only that, as CEI’s work on agency guidance documents, policy statements memoranda and other forms of regulatory dark matter attests, conventional notice-and-comment regulation increasingly comes nowhere close to capturing government intervention in the economy.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Memos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memos. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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