addressee

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

“Needless to say the addressee was quite startled when they opened the box,” Port Chester police wrote on Facebook.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

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

"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

His messengers carried letters bearing the seal, "Mohammed, Prophet of God," and urging the addressees to acknowledge his claims by embracing Islam.

From Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam by Hayes, H. E. E. (Herbert Edward Elton)