as in dispatch
a piece of conveyed information
answered the phone and took a message
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Recent Examples of message
Kevin Williams, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
Morris didn’t respond to messages requesting comment.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
By June 2024, an undercover agent with the SSA Office of the Inspector General started messaging Kim while posing as the woman and using a different phone number, according to the affidavit.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Holland worries that the ones falling for the scam are society’s most vulnerable: the elderly and less tech-savvy people, even children who may receive the messages on their phones.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025
Morris didn’t respond to messages requesting comment.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
One thing helped: messaging her IVF coach, Kristin Dillensnyder.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
By June 2024, an undercover agent with the SSA Office of the Inspector General started messaging Kim while posing as the woman and using a different phone number, according to the affidavit.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for message
Noun
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The smell of smoke alarmed residents in parts of South Florida, prompting more than 150 calls within an hour to a fire rescue dispatch center.—
Juan Ortega,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Mar. 2025
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Who’s going to support the people who fix the power lines during storms, who take outage reports from customers and dispatch line crews, who climb down into century-old vaults in the street – all to keep the power flowing for our 345,000 customers?—
Jeff Cyr,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Newsweek has contacted Denmark's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment by email.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
19 Mar. 2025
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After tracks hit the web in January, several studio employees contacted the FBI upon discovering that the unreleased music was available online.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the letter, Peppermint and Grande push for authentic representation that is reflective of the diversity of LGBTQ lives.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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In the latest move, on Feb. 25, 2025, the new FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson sent a two paragraph letter to Brian Boyle, an attorney for MGM indicating that the FTC was withdrawing its CID thereby putting an end to its investigation.—
Steve Weisman,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In practice, Ryan says, parents can implement it by simply approaching the challenging moments with their kid from a place of curiosity rather than anger, rigidity or frustration.—
Miranda Rake,
Parents,
14 Mar. 2025
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Manager David Moyes is approaching two months in post, and supporters are still waiting for clues as to what will follow once Premier League survival is secured.—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The law creating the Universal Service Fund, for example, lays out the broad goal of taxing communications service providers and using that money to ensure that everyone has access to those services.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
19 Mar. 2025
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The most successful communications teams create frameworks that define when to leverage AI and when human judgment is irreplaceable.—
Claire Vanessa Lim,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
Verb
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On March 22, 1995, Polyakov boarded the Soyuz TM-20 spacecraft, alongside Aleksandr Viktorenko and Yelena Kondakova, to return to Earth.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
TIME,
18 Mar. 2025
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In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore boarded a SpaceX Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station and began their journey back to Earth.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The deal is for one year and up to $6 million, according to multiple reports.—
Daniel Popper,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, massive-scale incidents continued to increase between 2023 and 2024, accounting for nearly 60% of all incidents, the report revealed.—
Ed Garsten,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In this new creative interface, your job is to communicate effectively—asking the right questions and offering the right prompts—while the heavy lifting of execution is handled by AI.—
John Winsor,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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The clip gives fans a look into his creative process as members of the OTF crew communicate with him on calls and run through songs making the tracklist’s cut.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Message.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/message. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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