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mailman

[meyl-man] / ˈmeɪlˌmæn /


NOUN
mail carrier
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Public health scientists at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health used advanced computer simulations to trace how the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026

“Our hope is that a lot of schools see that this is highly reasonable,” May Mailman, senior adviser for special projects at the White House, said last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

In the first few minutes of the interview, Mailman delivers her usual shtick.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2025

“Our hope is that a lot of schools see that this is highly reasonable,” said May Mailman, senior adviser for special projects at the White House.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Dick and Jane, Sally and Spot, Mother and Father, the Mailman, the Milkman, and the Policeman smiled their way through tableau after tableau, their clean, healthy, primary-colored world flat and shadowless.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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