missive

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The pressure of sending a missive to the one writer you had lived your entire professional life wishing you could ever be as good as nearly derailed the whole enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times

For their final holiday missive, the individual members once again recorded their contributions separately and sent them to Kenny Everett, who compiled them into this greeting.

From Salon

Two days later, they lobbed a missive at Warner: “WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process,” Paramount’s lawyers wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

A smart and savvy negotiator who bridged Sacramento’s overlapping worlds of government, business and labor, Williamson is also someone who picked unnecessary fights and launched cruel missives, political consultants and friends said this week.

From Los Angeles Times

The missive is the latest sign of pushback against the AI boom buoying the U.S. economy and markets while straining power producers’ ability to keep up.

From The Wall Street Journal