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printed matters

noun

plural of printed matter
as in postal cards

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for printed matters
  1. letters
  2. messages
  3. cards
  4. postcards
  5. epistles
  6. dispatches
Noun
  • There was some experimenting with the memoir being all letters, one big letter, or placed interstitially among narrative, but there were always going to be the letters.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • This is a major win for the lowrider community, which submitted more than 1,700 letters in support of the bill.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of letters
Noun
  • The company said one researcher exchanged thousands of messages with its AI systems about improving the mammalian transmission of a highly lethal bird flu virus.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2026
  • With fewer in-person organizers, some groups are also focusing on social media and partnering with liberal content creators to boost their messages.
    — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of messages
Noun
  • So many have left him since — his dear friend Joe Marconi, his radio partner Mike Pyle and his fierce rival in golf, cards and racquetball, Dan Reeves.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The goal is to create unique art pieces like cards and bookmarks.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of cards
Noun
  • The instructions even say that while packages are X-rayed, greeting cards and postcards are not, which is why the journalist chose to embed the tracker in a postcard.
    — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Definition of postcards
Noun
  • The main theme of the letters over time emphasizes long-term value creation, but the epistles have drawn criticism from the political left and right.
    — byDebbie Carlson, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026
  • While hunkered down in the trenches of World War I, a Greek scholar translated some of Paul’s epistles.
    — Robin Hoagland, Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2025
Definition of epistles
Noun
  • Ada Scott, an elderly reporter who was close to retirement, regularly wrote glowing dispatches about Puente in the 1960s for The East Yolo Record, a newspaper that operated in what is now West Sacramento.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In the spirit of snacking, here are bite-sized dispatches from some of the Vogue team’s favorite foods at fashion week.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispatches
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