as in couriers
one that carries a message or does an errand
the messenger comes by twice a day to pick up packages
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Recent Examples of messengers
The Gut Produces Mood-Boosting Chemicals One of the most direct ways the gut influences the brain is through chemical messengers that affect mood and cognition.
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
Advertisement Koch later tried to ban bicycles from much of midtown in an attempt to rid the city of the growing army of bike messengers.
—Evan Friss, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
While these results are limited to mice, the principle – that controled skin stress can reactivate hair follicle stem cells through fat-cell messengers – provides a promising new direction for research into hair regrowth therapies.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
These kinds of supplements are thought to promote joint health by triggering the immune system to produce chemical messengers that tamp down inflammation.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
What are the features of audiences, messages, and messengers on social media that are most effective at influencing people?
—Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
These missives forced career civil servants, many of them furloughed, to become unwilling messengers for partisan ends.
—Stephanie A, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
This costume is reminiscent of what messengers from the underworld who guide souls to the afterlife would wear in traditional Korean mythology.
—Miranda Rake, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
About 65% of the children who engaged with these perpetrators are prompted to move to a secondary platform, sometimes chat messengers with little to no security measures like WhatsApp or Telegram, other times to platforms like Snapchat, Google Chat or iMessage, according to the June report.
—Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
Advertisement Koch later tried to ban bicycles from much of midtown in an attempt to rid the city of the growing army of bike messengers.
—Evan Friss, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
While these results are limited to mice, the principle – that controled skin stress can reactivate hair follicle stem cells through fat-cell messengers – provides a promising new direction for research into hair regrowth therapies.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
These kinds of supplements are thought to promote joint health by triggering the immune system to produce chemical messengers that tamp down inflammation.
—Maria Godoy, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
What are the features of audiences, messages, and messengers on social media that are most effective at influencing people?
—Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
These missives forced career civil servants, many of them furloughed, to become unwilling messengers for partisan ends.
—Stephanie A, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
This costume is reminiscent of what messengers from the underworld who guide souls to the afterlife would wear in traditional Korean mythology.
—Miranda Rake, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
About 65% of the children who engaged with these perpetrators are prompted to move to a secondary platform, sometimes chat messengers with little to no security measures like WhatsApp or Telegram, other times to platforms like Snapchat, Google Chat or iMessage, according to the June report.
—Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for messengers
Noun
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Khosrowshahi said the company is also harnessing artificial intelligence to build more solutions for its drivers and couriers, and working with large language model creators such as OpenAI.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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For these drivers and couriers, finding additional ways of earning is becoming a key concern given that the rise of self-driving cars—which Uber already offers in Austin and Atlanta—could push many out of a job.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Continuing his fitness journey, the rapper successfully launched his Wunna Run Club with a 5K race event in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, which attracted more than 1,000 runners to join Gunna in September.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Last weekend, tens of thousands from across the world traveled to New York City to run the iconic marathon, attracting friends, families and bystanders to cheer the runners on.—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Messengers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messengers. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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