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
While Bob struggles to charge the low-tech phone that’ll connect him with the French 75, Sensei coordinates skateboarders as messengers and directs his relatives and employees to evacuate the dozens of migrants his family is sheltering to a nearby church.
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Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Teachers are messengers of knowledge and education.
—Ikram Talaat Ahmed, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Satellite messengers are great, but low-tech tools have their place in a safety kit, too.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
Most release chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters, which travel across the tiny gaps known as synapses and dock onto cuplike proteins called receptors on the next neuron.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Hormones are chemical messengers that guide sleep, metabolism, stress, and reproductive health.
—Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2025
One of the most important messengers.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
All three voter blocs strongly favored Mayor Scott’s message and policies over the approach, by both GOP and Democratic politicians, that focused only on police as messengers and policing as a response to concerns about crime.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Robert Daniels, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Teachers are messengers of knowledge and education.
—Ikram Talaat Ahmed, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Satellite messengers are great, but low-tech tools have their place in a safety kit, too.
—Owen Clarke, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
Most release chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters, which travel across the tiny gaps known as synapses and dock onto cuplike proteins called receptors on the next neuron.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Hormones are chemical messengers that guide sleep, metabolism, stress, and reproductive health.
—Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2025
One of the most important messengers.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
All three voter blocs strongly favored Mayor Scott’s message and policies over the approach, by both GOP and Democratic politicians, that focused only on police as messengers and policing as a response to concerns about crime.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for messengers
Noun
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Sometimes scammers have even sent couriers to their targets’ homes to collect money.—
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Scientific American,
8 Oct. 2025
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From car couriers to bikes to sidewalk robots and now drones, Uber is aiming to build the most flexible delivery network in the world.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Blades will pull loose easily from the runners.—
Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Yankees threatened with runners in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings, but the Blue Jays were able to head back into the dugout unscathed.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Messengers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messengers. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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