messenger
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But there seemed to be some frustration directed at the messenger.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 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
So much of this midterm cycle has also come down to candidate quality - not just the message but the messenger.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
There had been no time to mail it, so its sender, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, had used the president’s messenger to hand-deliver it to the owners of Ford’s Theatre.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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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
Bass said she also believes young people are her best messengers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
She went through a hundred “shanks” names and continued to speak to servants and messengers through the crack of the door as they handed her new lists.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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