deliveries

noun

plural of delivery
1
as in releases
a freeing from an obligation or responsibility the school bell signaled our delivery from the tortures of math class

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2
as in childbirths
the act or process of giving birth to children her second delivery took only three hours

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Recent Examples of deliveries Late deliveries and bad ratings also declined, with workers who had more severe hearing loss benefiting the most. — Zoë Schiffer, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026 The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, which has been documenting the crisis for months, said there have been no food deliveries to the town since the end of May. — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 27 Oct. 2026 Enrollment closes June 30, 2027, and Ford hasn’t said when first deliveries will happen. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026 The tanker derives from Boeing’s 767 platform, which has recorded 1,361 deliveries since 1982. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026 Launch-day pickup inventory of the foldable phone sold out quickly , and some deliveries appear to be delayed as far as late January. — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, Zelenskyy on Sunday said Russia had launched nearly 2,300 drones targeting Ukrainian cities over the past week, renewing his call on Western allies to speed up deliveries of interceptors. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, Zelensky on Sunday said Russia had launched nearly 2,300 drones targeting Ukrainian cities over the last week, renewing his call for Western allies to speed up deliveries of interceptors. — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 Annabel Lee-Ellis/PA Images via Getty Images But some residents say the convenience of faster deliveries isn't worth the potential impact on their neighborhoods. — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
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  1. releases
  2. childbirths
  3. discharges
Noun
  • After a handful of supremely mellow releases that blended lurching ’90s breakbeats with wintry, Mazzy Star-like songwriting, their third album dives into a vat of mercurial distortion and slippery, all-consuming bass.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
  • These latest releases from OpenAI continue to contradict the recommendations of the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AGMAI), the expert panel the company organized in response to widespread criticism from mathematicians.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of releases
Noun
  • The human neurons suffered severe, selective damage, mimicking the cellular breakdown that causes cerebral palsy in human infants during difficult childbirths.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Congo's has among the world's highest rates of both childbirths per woman and deaths around childbirth.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of childbirths
Noun
  • The groups are calling for potential polluters to notify treatment facilities about PFAS in their discharges, a phaseout of PFAS use, and restrictions on industrial discharges into rivers and sewage treatment plants.
    — Rashad Williams, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In conventional lithium-sulfur batteries, each sulfur atom exchanges two electrons as the battery charges and discharges.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of discharges

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“Deliveries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deliveries. Accessed 30 Oct. 2026.

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