messenger
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Dopamine is a chemical messenger involved in motivation, reward, and learning.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
I feel like I might be the messenger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
At the time, the real estate mogul was working as a messenger to make ends meet, and was making a delivery to the owner of an opulent Manhattan home.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Consolidation seems a simple step, but it distinguished the company from its competitors. It transformed American Messenger from a traditional messenger service into a different type of business, a delivery service.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
By the time they reached fourteen, many young people were pulled out of school and called upon to earn their keep as messenger boys, door openers, office girls, and seamstresses.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
Town criers have a history stretching back centuries, acting as official messengers long before the arrival of newspapers, radio and the internet.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The leaders of the A.I. industries are extremely unpopular and make bad messengers for requesting this sort of access.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that can act as signaling messengers that might, for instance, tell the body to produce more growth hormone or repair tissue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
His lab identified it years ago as one of the thousands of peptides that act as chemical messengers in the human body, one he believed might someday have therapeutic uses for humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
New merchants, pilgrims, and messengers added themselves to our roving village.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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