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
Many of the political posts iwere made or altered with artificial intelligence. — Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 30 Oct. 2026 Gebala has frequently offered updates on Maya’s long recovery in posts to Facebook, including a recent excursion to see the rock band Foo Fighters and celebrate her 13th birthday. — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026 The warnings appeared in letters, social media posts, public statements and court proceedings, according to the complaint. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026 TikTok posts under the tag called people to Catalonia Square on Saturday, and QR codes sent them to WhatsApp or Telegram channels, Catalonia’s interior chief, Núria Parlon, told Cadena SER radio. — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 Ri’s family escaped to South Korea from their posts in China in 2014, and Hyunseung and his sister later earned master’s degrees from Columbia University. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026 Consequently, A-list influencers like Jenner, Hadid and Bieber flit between promo posts, campaigns and collabs with activewear brands like Alo, Adanola and Vuori, all while being papped in brands from CSB to Set Active. — Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026 Hundreds of people on social media have also watched the project unfold through posts by the project’s lead artist, 28-year-old Liz Gonzalez, known as zelaznogzil on Instagram. — Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026 How to experience it The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources posts harvest outlooks and maps on its wild rice management page. — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
On the other side, if OpenAI posts its own collateral, or achieves a high enough credit rating, Nvidia's guarantee ends. — Kif Leswing,isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 One of the collectors hit is a YouTuber with 148,000 subscribers who posts as SKY-B Cards. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026 After much hemming and hawing, Diplo selects an orange flower to purchase and posts a video to his Instagram stories in which the man holds up his shopping bag printed with a website for his wares. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 Blackwell posts the schedule on the restaurant’s Instagram account, @plushburgers. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Megan Thee Stallion isn’t shy about sharing her workout routine—the rapper regularly posts videos of herself doing Pilates and other workouts on social media. — Christa Sgobba, HEALTH, 15 Oct. 2026 Paramount says 247Sports is a sports news website that posts video clips with articles and photos free of charge. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Markle remains very active on social media and regularly posts family videos. — Lou Gomis, Vanity Fair, 9 Oct. 2026 For the first time in three years, Pi-o posts a video recording of his performance. — Kayti Burt, Time, 6 Oct. 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
  • Despite a strong growth forecast for the region, unemployment among the fast-growing youth population remains stubbornly high, leading to political instability and leaving the authorities looking for ways to create more jobs.
    — Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Unlike training approaches that largely depend on preparing datasets and updating models before deployment, this framework allows robots to continue learning while performing actual jobs.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But economic pressure won't change Iran's negotiating positions, said Karimi, the former official.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Scholten told Semafor that experience positions Turek to convert frustrated Republicans.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Those are places where many voters look skeptically, even scornfully, upon big cities and the people who run them.
    — Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The volumes insist that Jewish communities be remembered not solely as sites of death but as places where people lived, argued, worked and celebrated.
    — Jennifer Rich, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • On the columns of train stations, stickers bore the smiling faces of soldiers in their twenties alongside motivational quotes and the dates of their births and deaths.
    — Jordi Graupera, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Featuring towering stone columns, colorful reliefs (despite being 3,200 years old) and famous carvings, it's bypassed by tour buses heading straight for Hatshepsut.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The public has 60 days to submit comments on the proposal before the USDA publishes a final rule.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Let’s Dish also publishes on Tuesdays from Food Insider Katelyn Umholtz.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The series begins with a prison bus pulling up to a correctional facility in Georgia, where the commander of jail operations, Major Boughner, announces how the 30 participants, 27 men and 3 women, will be divided.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Part of the problem is that friction rarely announces itself as a five-alarm fire.
    — Rhodes Kriske, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 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 31 Oct. 2026.

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