messenger
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During deep sleep, the body releases growth hormone, a powerful chemical messenger that helps build muscle, strengthen bones, and regulate fat metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
“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
Powell would pretend he was a messenger delivering important medicine from Seward’s doctor.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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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
There, five or six messengers had arrived with money in about an hour and a half, transferring at least a million euros, he estimated.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
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
We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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