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a person who delivers mail
the postman comes at around nine every morning
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Recent Examples of postman
These trees are all clones from the original Hass tree developed by Rudolph Hass, a postman in Los Angeles.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
That’s so nice!), and Shep, in turn, runs and scares the annoying postman (Shep!
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2025
Cruz was indicted Thursday for second-degree murder in the 2:30 p.m. stabbing of the 36-year-old postman at Joe’s Grocery, on Lenox Rd.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
That’s best demonstrated by a novel gameplay mechanic in the form of a camera that Indy acquires from a dissident postman called Ernesto.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
That’s so nice!), and Shep, in turn, runs and scares the annoying postman (Shep!
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2025
Cruz was indicted Thursday for second-degree murder in the 2:30 p.m. stabbing of the 36-year-old postman at Joe’s Grocery, on Lenox Rd.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
That’s best demonstrated by a novel gameplay mechanic in the form of a camera that Indy acquires from a dissident postman called Ernesto.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postman
Noun
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Back in March, former USPS postmaster Louis DeJoy stepped down following Trump’s comments about taking control of the USPS under the Department of Commerce.—
Elaine Mallon,
The Washington Examiner,
9 May 2025
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Five years ago, before the board nominated DeJoy as its 75th postmaster, stamps cost 50 cents.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ever since moving to her new home in a small town, dog owner Lydia, 30, from Wisconsin, has been documenting the precious bond between her pup, Opal, and the mailman.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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She has been inundated with support from people around the world who can't get enough of the corgi and the mailman's friendship.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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America’s federal government employs a dizzying range of workers: mail carriers and mapmakers, firefighters and fish biologists, volcanologists positioned on tectonic-plate boundaries, cooks on Navy submarines.—
Charlie Tyson,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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Mary Fields was the first African American woman to become a U.S. mail carrier.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2024
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“Postman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postman. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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