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noun

ˈme-sij

Definition of message

as in dispatch

a piece of conveyed information answered the phone and took a message

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Noun

Arrouas, who returned to Israel before Saturday's protests, described his shock over the messages. — Ariella Noveck, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Investigators found antisemitic messages and other items in Horn's car and storage unit, including a journal containing references to Nazism and white supremacy. — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

Verb

People who want to message with inmates must create an account. — Tom Kertscher, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2026 People can message the agent in a separate app, called Muse, or message it in WhatsApp. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for message

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Noun

Police chief promises independent investigation In a statement released late Tuesday, Woodland police said the ICE agent driving the Chevrolet Tahoe immediately notified dispatch and cooperated with local investigators.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
According to firefighters, the department’s flood response was also limited by an antiquated dispatch system.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of dispatch

Verb

Loofe’s mother Susie Loofe wrote on Facebook that her family had been contacted by at least 100 production companies looking to make a documentary about the murder before putting their trust in Imagine Documentaries.

— Samantha Bergeson, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
Chavez contacted an inmate at the prison who worked for Buchanan.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of contact

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Brennan said his letter was based on direction offered by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
The letters on Friday came on the heels of a statewide sweep by federal authorities on Monday, where 28 people from the list of 20,000 were charged with illegally registering to vote.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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Verb

The result offers researchers a different way to approach quantum material design.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
With Election Day approaching, California voters are facing a crowded ballot and competing claims about what the state's propositions would do.

— James Taylor, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of approach

Noun

By adding a company with a long record in underwater robotics, Elbit gains access to specialist expertise that complements its existing surface, sensor, communications and command-and-control capabilities.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
This is where reputation and communications become part of the business decisions.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of communication

Verb

In 1731 Brit Robert Jenkins was captaining one such ship, en route from Jamaica to London, when Spanish guards boarded it in the West Indies.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2026
The project has been in the works since 2019, with Wan boarding the production this spring.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of board

Verb

Crump said in June that Vellesiya had been trying to communicate to officers that there was a baby in the car.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026
From the airplane to the transistor, inventions developed in the United States have radically changed how people travel, communicate, manufacture goods, and understand the world.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

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