sends

verb

present tense third-person singular of send
as in transmits
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another they promised to send the package in the morning

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Recent Examples of sends The result sends the National League Wild Card series to a winner-take-all third game at a time to be announced Thursday. — Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, Send Last Location automatically sends your iPhone's location to Apple when its battery reaches a critically low level. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 The bedroom selfie Flora secretly sends her the morning after is the final straw impelling Carla to file for divorce. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026 Lidar sends laser pulses toward a target and measures the light that returns. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 Once activated, the malware sends a command directing the ATM to dispense cash without debiting a customer’s account. — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026 The time-traveling Nebula is captured by this Thanos, who sends her past self to the future as a decoy. — Michael McDonough, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026 Launching here sends a signal that ambitious plans for circularity must be grounded in reality. — Bella Webb, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026 China’s People’s Liberation Army sends fighter jets and ships toward the island almost daily. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sends
  1. transmits
  2. transports
  3. ships
  4. dispatches
  5. transfers
Verb
  • This handy gadget picks up your Bluetooth signal and transmits audio to up to two Bluetooth devices.
    — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The sender entangles its light field with the hologram’s light field and transmits the resulting signal.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of transmits
Verb
  • Thornock said Shasta Community Health has patients who travel more than an hour to get care and provides a program that transports them to health facilities.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline, a highly strategic network that transports crude oil from the kingdom’s eastern coast to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, following the damage caused by a drone attack.
    — Anniek Bao,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of transports
Verb
  • Pelinka mentioned a consolidation trade that ships two players out for one as a possible solution to the overcrowded roster.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The toolkit has quietly powered World ID since April and now ships publicly under an MIT license after roughly two years of development and an independent audit by Least Authority.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of ships
Verb
  • Even though the department no longer dispatches officers to the scenes of minor accidents, LAPD statistics show that enforcement the department’s 308-member traffic bureau has gone up.
    — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The officer immediately dispatches that shots had been fired.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of dispatches
Verb
  • Instead of striking the target with an explosive warhead, the laser transfers energy into the target’s surface.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
  • This project transfers a handwritten family recipe onto a ceramic pie plate using graphite paper and a glass paint marker.
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of transfers

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“Sends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sends. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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