messenger
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Because working-class voters, as they tell us themselves, are not simply waiting to be activated by the right program, messenger or phrase.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
“I’m not a messenger for anybody in the world. I’m a messenger for my community.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Serotonin is a chemical messenger with jobs throughout the body.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Herman was a combative messenger for Bass, issuing broadsides against her rivals as she fought for a second four-year term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
The surest means to purify the messenger intermediate was to halt protein synthesis abruptly—using a biochemical equivalent of a cold shower—and purify the shivering molecules associated with the ribosomes, thereby trapping the elusive Pimpernel.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
This called for the creation of fake messengers, and Delmer invented some absolute stunners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
They then identified and synthesized many of the chemical messengers found in the ant brain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Humans domesticated the birds and used them as messengers and as food for thousands of years.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The messengers without bow or answer turned and fled.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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