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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

They must sign their mail ballots, and their signature is compared to the one the state has on file to verify their identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

In the 50s, the only way they could communicate was by writing letters through air mail but this later progressed to emails and now their method of choice is WhatsApp.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Lady Constance reached into her reticule and extracted the same square, cream-colored envelope that Penelope had spotted on the mail tray the previous day.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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