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Recent Examples of special delivery
Novak Djokovic received a special delivery while in London for Wimbledon 2025, a pair of white Asics sneakers with custom art, another project in a line of personalized sneaker designs from Swithadot Studios.
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Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Be especially wary of unrequested special delivery, maintenance calls, turndown service, or room service.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner and Oscar winner Zoe Saldaña were among those to receive a special delivery.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The United States has refused a request by Mexico for water after supplies under a treaty reached the cutoff point for special deliveries.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
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Tim Newcomb, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Be especially wary of unrequested special delivery, maintenance calls, turndown service, or room service.
—Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 June 2025
Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner and Oscar winner Zoe Saldaña were among those to receive a special delivery.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The United States has refused a request by Mexico for water after supplies under a treaty reached the cutoff point for special deliveries.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for special delivery
Noun
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This includes accounting for zones with special handling (e.g. slow zones).—
Richard Bishop,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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More Stories The ideal for submarine commanders is a robot that doesn't need special handling and can be loaded aboard like a torpedo, then launched from a standard torpedo tube and recovered through the same tube after its mission has been completed.—
David Szondy
June 21,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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The gyms also told consumers that the mail-in cancellations should be sent by certified or registered mail, according to the FTC.—
Sarah Fortinsky,
The Hill,
20 Aug. 2025
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It is highly recommended that a taxpayer use the foreign country’s version of certified or registered mail because the receipt can serve as proof of timely mailing/filing.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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The old law had required that the executor send you notice by registered or certified mail, and then provide proof of service to the court.—
Virginia Hammerle,
Dallas News,
30 July 2023
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Resumes sent by registered or certified mail to the Metro Council Clerk, 601 W. Jefferson St., 40202, must be postmarked no later than March 3 and must be received in the clerk’s office within four business days after mailing.—
Billy Kobin,
The Courier-Journal,
24 Feb. 2023
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His big claim was rural free delivery.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2020
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Wanamaker’s tumultuous term as postmaster general for the Republican president Benjamin Harrison—which began with firing thousands of Democratic postmasters but later brought about the establishment of rural free delivery—gets short shrift.—
Marc Levinson,
WSJ,
28 Oct. 2018
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Competition also came from airlines and intercity bus lines that could easily carry parcel post on their routes.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Feb. 2024
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Extending parcel post to the countryside was vehemently opposed by merchants, who feared competition from Sears Roebuck and other mail order houses.—
Tom Dillard,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2021
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More than 1,000 employees circumnavigate the bustling fifth floor Tempus office around an atrium that Lefkofsky said was a spiral parking ramp before the building — a National Historic Landmark that once housed the country’s oldest mail-order firm — was converted to tech space 25 years ago.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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The fire didn't damage any mail and left minimal damage in the basement because fire crews put it out so quickly, Kloth said.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Special delivery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/special%20delivery. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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