addressee
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West Mercia Police sent speeding tickets to a Grade II listed Herefordshire castle bought by Hammond in 2012 and a £1m farm estate near Hereford, but the letters were returned marked as "addressee gone away".
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
In such a case, the apparent addressee is not the real addressee: the teacher is trying to pass on information indirectly to one or more other students.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
“Here we go,” he said before slicing into an envelope with a return address on Queens Boulevard in New York, marked “Personal and confidential — to be opened by addressee only.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
“As the postal service we are always happy when the addressee gets the message,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Steps include blocking specific stations and IP addressees that consistently transmit false data.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Lara Jean’s secret stash of unsent love letters to Josh and four other crushes winds up being mysteriously stamped and sent to the addressees.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
They come from a tradition of “vinegar valentines,” which, as I wrote on the Vault in 2013, delivered a payload of burn to their unfortunate addressees.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2018
In some cases, the emails were part of long chains, on which Mrs. Clinton was copied at the beginning, but later left off the list of addressees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2016
Fortunately, upon inquiry being made by the interested parties, the medicine and slipper were delivered to the rightful addressees.
From The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time by Robert Charles Tombs
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