missive
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For nearly 14 years, I’ve returned to this contemplative missive through every bump in the occupational road or moment of professional strife.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026
This, we learn, is the man who sent that pocketed missive of the prologue; how it made its way to Kornyev is a miracle at which Mr. Loznitsa leaves us to marvel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
“Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people,” Altman wrote elsewhere in his 420-word missive.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2026
We know that because after Streeting's gambit, a missive was sent around government by the Cabinet Office ordering them not to.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
When he wrote this last missive, Jorge must have known he would die before she received it.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Vocabulary lists containing missive
Send a Message: Mit and Miss
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