airmailing

verb

present participle of airmail
as in mailing

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  1. mailing
  2. posting
  3. shipping
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  • In 1912 Ramanujan, a 24-year-old clerk at what was then the Madras Port Trust in India, began mailing pages of new, unproven formulas to mathematicians across England.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • An Illinois man was arrested and charged by federal authorities for allegedly mailing letters containing an unknown substance to the state’s congressional offices, the Department of Justice said on Monday.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of mailing
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  • To prepare for the holiday season, retailers are posting more permanent part-time jobs in place of seasonal roles, says Ullrich.
    — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Ahsan Masih was accused of posting blasphemous content to TikTok in 2023, and was sentenced to death the following year.
    — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of posting
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  • The Houthis ramped up their advance on Taiz last month, after a lightning-fast capture of the port city of Mokha, an area about 130 kilometers (80 miles) away that is vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The rest of the year goes to signing leases, making and shipping millions of costumes, and lining up tens of thousands of seasonal workers.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
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“Airmailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airmailing. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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