messenger
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Charting an American immigrant's rise from messenger boy to corporate tycoon, it was inspired, in part, by his own financial problems and did much to solve them.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
From Bass’ side, Pratt voters will be targeted by her most credible messenger to moderate and more conservative voters: the Police Protective League, the union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles Police Department officers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
His Telegram messenger is one of the country's main communications platforms.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
But Ms. Finley is shooting the messenger when she takes aim at TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Then Zeus sent another messenger to her, a great personage, none other than his revered mother Rhea, the oldest of the gods.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The White House has also lost one of its most powerful messengers, after formidable Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped down, saying she wanted to devote more time to her children.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
This called for the creation of fake messengers, and Delmer invented some absolute stunners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
Humans domesticated the birds and used them as messengers and as food for thousands of years.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Both messengers, crewman and swineherd—reached the outer gate in the same instant, bearing the same news, m and went in side by side to the king’s hall.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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