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delivery

[dih-liv-uh-ree] / dɪˈlɪv ə ri /






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Medical applications include wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and resorbable implants or sutures that slowly degrade inside the body.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

Ruteng Regional General Hospital's operating room, delivery room, pharmacy, and laboratory were all rendered defunct after the building's roof collapsed.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

His team is pursuing "alternative message delivery methods", realising most people do not directly access traditional media but only "pick up scraps or clips of news on social media," said Buckley.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

This new round of layoffs follows hundreds of Amazon delivery service layoffs.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

I get giddy couples asking for champagne delivery, and apologetic businessmen telephoning home to announce their delayed arrivals, and tired mothers searching for all-night chemists to provide cough syrup for sick children.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

From TV streaming, to meal deliveries and beauty boxes there are subscriptions for almost everything.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

These layoffs are part of an initiative aimed at streamlining package pickups and deliveries by merging ground and express delivery networks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

A pharmacy employee said the supplier had been so overwhelmed by orders that it could no longer make deliveries itself, forcing it to ship the glasses by Uber.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Assembly and integration are progressing as Intuitive Machines works toward the broader goal of providing regular cargo and science deliveries to the Moon.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

So Wilson became a laboratory technician, then a transportation coordinator, working in a cubicle in a low-slung building in Astoria, Queens, overseeing fuel deliveries for the company’s fleet.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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