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McClatchy News reached out to her attorney May 27 and was awaiting a response.
LeBlanc, 48, a longtime postal service employee, worked as Seekonk Post Office’s postmaster from late 2023 to the beginning of 2025, prosecutors said.
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Sara Schilling, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
Reynolds retired as postmaster of the Yosemite post office in 2023 after a 44-year USPS career in and near the national park.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
His father was a mostly unsuccessful lawyer, a downbeat man who also worked as a shopkeeper, postmaster and judge.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Tension and complaints grew in the 1890s as a record-breaking number of Black postmasters were appointed by Republican politicians in the South, courting and rewarding the Black vote.
—Sarah Prager, JSTOR Daily, 12 Mar. 2025
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Sara Schilling, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
Reynolds retired as postmaster of the Yosemite post office in 2023 after a 44-year USPS career in and near the national park.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
His father was a mostly unsuccessful lawyer, a downbeat man who also worked as a shopkeeper, postmaster and judge.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Tension and complaints grew in the 1890s as a record-breaking number of Black postmasters were appointed by Republican politicians in the South, courting and rewarding the Black vote.
—Sarah Prager, JSTOR Daily, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for postmaster
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The postmistress, Christine Moss, is Jim and Jessie’s niece-in-law, and lives in the house next to the post office with her fisherman husband, Howard.—
Robert Finch
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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In late 1902, the town of Indianola, Mississippi, attempted to drive out Minnie Cox, the first Black postmistress in the state.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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“Postmaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postmaster. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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