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pony express

NOUN
former mail delivery system
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Stagecoach services, like the pony express, took days to traverse the gutted tracks across the wilderness that still separated America’s nascent cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

Why would anyone deliver a thumb drive by pony express or carrier pigeon when the internet was made for the purpose of quickly and easily delivering data electronically?

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2018

Filippini and other ranchers have sued, staged a "pony express" protest ride on horseback to Washington, D.C., and petitioned for Furtado's ouster.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2016

Then, two laps from the finish, the pony express got steamed up.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's the pony express rider, between Golden Crossing and Rainbow Ridge, if you have to know.

From Jack of the Pony Express by Webster, Frank V.



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