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mail

[mayl] / meɪl /
NOUN
written correspondence; system for sending correspondence
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VERB
send through the postal system
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When rates jumped in 2022 and 2023, those payments outran its income, and a central bank that used to mail the Treasury a check every week found it had nothing left to mail.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bakker was then convicted in 1989 of 24 counts of mail and wire fraud and conspiracy in a scheme involving their Christian theme park, and served more than four years in prison.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Davis said the video showed the bird following the mail carrier to his truck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

To receive the funds from our last checking account, we had to wait 15 days for a cashier’s check to arrive by mail.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

But he remembered he had mail to deliver and went on his way.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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