addressee
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The mysterious addressee was then sent seven letters, a bank card, a PIN, overdraft limit warnings and a warning that an outstanding debt could be referred to a credit reference agency.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
In such a case, the apparent addressee is not the real addressee: the teacher is trying to pass on information indirectly to one or more other students.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
“As the postal service we are always happy when the addressee gets the message,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
"If it's a prison term, then it's a prison term. It absolutely doesn't scare me," said the letter, shown to Reuters on condition the addressee remained anonymous.
From Reuters ● Apr. 11, 2022
The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Steps include blocking specific stations and IP addressees that consistently transmit false data.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Lara Jean’s secret stash of unsent love letters to Josh and four other crushes winds up being mysteriously stamped and sent to the addressees.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
They come from a tradition of “vinegar valentines,” which, as I wrote on the Vault in 2013, delivered a payload of burn to their unfortunate addressees.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2018
In some cases, the emails were part of long chains, on which Mrs. Clinton was copied at the beginning, but later left off the list of addressees.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2016
Only two of the ten addressees named by Ovid in EP IV were recipients of earlier letters from him.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
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