MAILS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of mail

as in correspondences

communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system began receiving lots of mail after he became known as a frequent donor to charities

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mail

as in posts

to send through the postal system if you don't mail that letter soon, it's going to arrive late

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Noun

The book-gifting program, part of the nonprofit Dollywood Foundation, mails free, high-quality books to children across the country and around the world once a month from birth to age 5. — Kristy High, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 Each month, the book gifting program mails free books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of their family’s income. — Devarrick Turner, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors said Graves' body was partially wrapped in black garbage bags secured with duct tape, then rolled up in a rug alongside blankets, bags, pieces of mails, various items of clothing and trash. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026 Tyler has been embedded in the treasurer’s office, which calculates and mails out property tax bills, for years. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026 First issue mails within 8 - 10 weeks. — Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026 This worldwide effort mails free, high-quality, age-appropriate books to children under age 5 every month, with a goal of sparking a lifetime love of reading. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025 In the past, only elite researchers had access to their genetic fingerprints, but now personal genotyping is available to anyone who orders the service online and mails in a spit sample. — Merrill Fabry, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 Along with some shockingly gruesome slides (lots of intestines and Jack the Ripper–style organ removal), Wallace shares that the New York Ripper is still traumatizing the relatives of his victims by leaving voice-mails taunting them about his brutal crimes. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025

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Parton also made an effort to contribute to causes such as child literacy with her Imagination Library program, which mails a free age-appropriate book to children every month from birth to fifth grade. — Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026 The Imagination Library mails free books to children around the world. — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026 Her philanthropy centered heavily on her home region, from the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, a book gifting program that mails free books to children, to disaster relief and education initiatives. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026 The library mails free books to children from birth to age 5, regardless of their family’s income. — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Aug. 2026 Throughout her career, Parton sold more than 160 million albums worldwide, and was heavily involved in philanthropy, most notably her Imagination Library, which mails one book a month to children from birth until kindergarten. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026 The program mails an age-appropriate book every month to enrolled children from birth until age 5, regardless of a family's income. — Tori Mason, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 For many, the deed added to her long list of philanthropic work, like her Imagination Library program, which mails over 1 million free books each month to children in need. — Moises Mendez Ii, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 That means even if a ballot is erroneously sent to someone’s past address and the current resident mails it in, there are checks to alert election workers to the foul play. — Ali Swenson, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026

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Noun

Despite correspondences with Cyrus’s team, the pair wasn’t able to get together Friday night.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Most moving, above all, are the correspondences with the writers themselves who reach out at their own expense—quite literally.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of correspondences

Noun

Conrad apparently didn’t know about the fevered 1952 letters to Breit.

— Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
The exhibition draws largely from the museum’s collection of photographs, film, period newspapers, letters and personal accounts to reconstruct the storm and what happened to Miami afterward.

— Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of letters

Noun

Peanut brittle in individual packages lack the name of producer and ingredients.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
That more than three hundred thousand packages are delivered somewhere in the world every minute of every day is a monument to his accomplishments.

— Marc Levinson, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of packages

Noun

Owning the Discover payment network allows the company to collect more of the fees merchants pay when customers use their cards — like American Express , which issues cards and owns its payment network.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
His order included several one-of-one cards, printed in a single copy and serial-numbered to prove it, along with a Barry Sanders autograph numbered three of five and a LeBron James card that was cut wrong at the factory.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

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