Thesaurus results for DELIVERY

delivery

noun

di-ˈli-v(ə-)rē

Definition of delivery

as in release

a freeing from an obligation or responsibility the school bell signaled our delivery from the tortures of math class

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as in childbirth

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

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Recent Examples of delivery 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 Within the numbers, margin performance will be critical because FedEx is a self-help story – cutting costs, making its delivery network more efficient , and prioritizing higher-value parcel deliveries, such as for the healthcare industry . — Kevin Stankiewicz,zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026 Their eventual impact will depend on flight tests, integration, manufacturing progress, and delivery to operational forces. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026 The state's vehicle code classifies personal delivery devices as pedestrians and generally requires them to follow pedestrian traffic rules. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for delivery

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Judge Michael Sweet sentenced Roderick Earl Sowells, 60, for the murder of David Marcus Jones, 29, of West Sacramento, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
That, however, never happened and an attorney eventually petitioned for his release.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

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Cantrell has a history of unattended or undisclosed pregnancy and childbirth and was close to delivering, according to the relative’s account, described in a police record.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
Older Armenian beliefs imagined that supernatural beings could threaten the woman after childbirth or harm her baby.

— Shushan Karapetian, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

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More than a third of cases occur following a hospital admission or just after discharge.

— Ali Ataya, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
This is made possible by the system’s zero-liquid-discharge technology, which evaporates the brine into solid salt and reduces the need to handle liquid waste.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026