open letter

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Recent Examples of open letter Nearly 1,000 workers from OpenAI and Google have signed an open letter demanding the companies to refuse the Pentagon’s demands to use their AI tech for mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026 In 2020, Bhattacharya, then a health economist at Stanford University without specialized training in infectious disease, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter that downplayed the risk of COVID and called for most of society to reopen before the arrival of vaccines. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026 In 2024, more than 11,000 creative professionals signed an open letter calling for prohibiting using human art to train artificial intelligence without permission. Angela Yang, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026 An open letter, first reported by Deadline, circulated across the industry and featured more than 2,500 signatories, including Sean Baker, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Nancy Spielberg. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for open letter
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Noun
  • In response, seven former EEOC officials sent Lucas an open letter via electronic mail on March 18, 2025.
    Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Eight years later, AOL introduced its own version of electronic mail services, email addresses, a Windows version and access to the rest of the Internet for its users.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sun brought with her a reply letter from Xi Jinping congratulating the Greek scholars on the center’s opening.
    Chang Che, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
  • However, the letter did not address whether the Paramount-WBD deal would be reviewed by CFIUS.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In addition to first-class stamps, the price hike will affect metered letters (from 69 cents to 74 cents), international postage (from $1.65 to $1.70) and domestic postal cards (from 56 cents to 62 cents).
    David Chiu, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Get rid of paper piles: receipts, junk mail, bags, and kids’ schoolwork Eliminate duplicates or lone items like unmatched socks, unwanted gifts, or free giveaways.
    Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Take 10 minutes to recycle junk mail, shred outdated documents, or organize important papers into files.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In the sentencing memorandum, prosecutors argued that between January 2010 and April 2013, Snyder executed a scheme to obstruct the IRS’s collection of his unpaid business and personal taxes.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The memorandum also details two former employees who came to Lauer with concerns about the company’s ethics and operations, only to be rebuffed.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The dispatch Yesterday saw the start of the Cheltenham Festival, the jump racing calendar’s biggest annual event.
    Ian King, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Next, the lucky ones who got out posted relieved dispatches from the air en route elsewhere.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • As a proud dad, the 38-year-old wrote his firstborn a sweet epistle to acknowledge his birthday.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 7 Feb. 2025
  • One of the earliest witnesses to the spread of Christianity, the codex features the first epistle of Peter and the Book of Jonah.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The charges of mail and wire fraud can lead to a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The first poll will be released on March 24, and then five additional surveys will come out every seven to 10 days until voters start receiving mail ballots in early May.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026

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“Open letter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/open%20letter. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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