posts 1 of 6

plural of post, chiefly British

posts

2 of 6

noun (2)

plural of post

posts

3 of 6

noun (3)

plural of post
as in columns
an upright shaft that supports an overhead structure hung the hammock between a tree and a post in the fence

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posts

4 of 6

verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of post

posts

5 of 6

verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of post
as in stations
to assign to a place or position the police are planning to post an officer outside the hospital room of the witness

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posts

6 of 6

verb (3)

present tense third-person singular of post
as in addresses
to send through the postal system be sure to post the letter this afternoon

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Recent Examples of posts
Noun
Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said in a statement Thursday that the strikes were carried out after eight drones were launched from Afghanistan and Afghan forces shelled Pakistani border posts. — Munir Ahmed, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026 Students contribute beyond their shows by working events, reviewing CDs and writing blog posts, Hernandez said. — The Sacramento Bee, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026 Explore See latest videos, charts and news Both festivals broke the news to ticketholders with posts on social media. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026 Social media and YouTube posts cryptically teasing that date popped up this week. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 25 Sep. 2026 The challenges the line has faced this summer are evident in its social media posts. — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Spyglass Media Group, which produces the slasher films, cited Barrera’s social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2026 Outdoor lighting can easily be integrated into deck boards and stairs, as well as railing posts and caps. — Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2026 The prosecution said Stokes provided the names of jurors to his father, who gathered information about them and members of their families from social media posts. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
Wang showed off the look in a series of Instagram posts that featured snaps from the gathering, as well as multiple angles of the designer’s new blonde lob. — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026 Defensive Player of the Week Senior linebacker Braden Fraus posts five tackles and scores a pair of TDs for West Aurora, one on a 15-yard fumble recovery and one on a 12-yard pick six, in 49-6 win over visiting Larkin. — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026 Netanyahu listed Mamdani’s rapport with streamer Hasan Piker, his hosting of a Palestinian journalist at Gracie Mansion and posts the mayor’s wife liked on social media as proof the mayor is antisemitic. — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026 Love Food, a publication that reviews food, ranks restaurants across the country, and posts recipes and tips, named the best grocery store in each state, but named two for California. — Ernesto Centeno Araujo, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 Fitzpatrick also posts online regularly about meeting with groups across the district. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 On a map on the agency’s website where the agency posts updates of wall construction across the entire southern border, a photo showed a crane lifting one of the 30-foot-tall steel wall panels into place while construction workers looked on. — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 The group regularly puts up posters in neighborhoods and posts them online, offering rewards for anonymous tips to help make arrests in violent crimes. — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 If either posts bond, they will be required to wear a GPS tether. — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for posts
Noun
  • The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, mails free, high-quality books to children across the country and around the world once a month from birth to age 5.
    — Kristy High, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Each month, the book gifting program mails free books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of their family’s income.
    — Devarrick Turner, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Nussbaum and her colleagues began passing out leaflets at Boston subway and bus stops to women heading to their jobs at downtown office buildings.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The jobs nobody wants The job of deciding whether a Florida family can buy groceries this month or keep its health coverage falls to DCF’s frontline caseworkers, known as economic self-sufficiency specialists.
    — Sharmila Venkatasubban, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • And yet Sullivan bypassed All Americans at both positions (UM’s Rueben Bain and Ohio State’s Caleb Downs) to take an offensive lineman (Kadyn Proctor).
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026
  • He was selected in 2021 for a science and technology policy fellowship through the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which places scientists and engineers in federal government positions to help with policymaking.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Adrià describes a world filtered through adolescence, where people, places and situations can appear idealized, magical or unsettling.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Even as the list has now slimmed down to six titles, the breadth of the places plotted out on the short list remains capacious as ever.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Several readers have spoken of appreciation for the columns of mine that intersected sports and society, such as excoriating the NFL for its blackballing of Colin Kaepernick.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The structural system, meanwhile, is based on point supports, which means the building loads are transferred through columns that can be spaced relatively far apart.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes the PCE within its monthly personal income and spending report, and the agency plans to issue updates to its methodology this time around.
    — Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
  • What to Consider Before Joining The practical question is not which platform publishes the longest list of features.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Technical debt at least announces itself through slow releases and frustrated engineers.
    — Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The inflation print comes before the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee announces its latest policy update on Thursday.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Dubbed the Velvet Gang, the trio snatches the overpriced, often monochromatic fashion threads designed by Christie Smith (Demi Moore, in a performance of comedic genius), a pretentious piece of work who stations herself in a leaning building (wink, win to San Francisco there).
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Instead, Boston stations him away from the basketball, the keeper of the weak side, free to flick away passes, kill screening actions with switches and, somehow, block shots.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Posts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posts. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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