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
  • Sensing a disconnect or worse, a feeling of being forgotten, Campbell this summer invited some of the men who wrote those letters to campus.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Combs' team issued two cease-and-desist letters to Netflix in response to the documentary's release.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of letters
Noun
  • In the cockpit, Joe has written out inspirational messages and instructions for her and Cooper.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Iran’s foreign minister says there are no direct talks, aside from messages passed through intermediaries.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of messages
Noun
  • Big fees could have been generated for Dele Alli or Christian Eriksen if Tottenham had played their cards right.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The rest of the league is playing poker, while Dunleavy is sitting in the corner playing Solitaire and congratulating himself on not losing any cards.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 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
  • That standard still holds for his frequent barrages of boasts, insults, threats, grouses and indecipherable dispatches via Truth Social.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Plus, follow along with our live blog today for dispatches from our reporters at polling places, watch parties and more.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of dispatches
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