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addressee

[ad-re-see, uh-dre-see] / ˌæd rɛˈsi, ə drɛˈsi /




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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

Its wrapping bears a postmark of May 11, 1965, and the sender and addressee are the same: Lewis Reed.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

“As the postal service we are always happy when the addressee gets the message,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

"If it's a prison term, then it's a prison term. It absolutely doesn't scare me," said the letter, shown to Reuters on condition the addressee remained anonymous.

From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 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

They know nothing other than they get paid, very well, to make sure that the addressees are in receipt of their packages.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Winn Schwartau


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