as in courier
one that carries a message or does an errand
the messenger comes by twice a day to pick up packages
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Recent Examples of messenger
The online messengers Democrats need to engage with will not always align perfectly to the party platform, Wikler suggested.
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Makena Kelly, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
These act like microscopic messengers to deliver information to other cells, instructing them to regenerate.
—Viola Levy, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Antibodies mark and bind to foreign substances (such as germs) for destruction, whereas cytokines serve as messengers, informing and signaling the immune system to launch an attack against germs.
—Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2024
Despite the metadata caution, my advice remains to use WhatsApp as your daily messenger given its reach and to use Signal for anything more sensitive or secure.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Makena Kelly, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2024
These act like microscopic messengers to deliver information to other cells, instructing them to regenerate.
—Viola Levy, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Antibodies mark and bind to foreign substances (such as germs) for destruction, whereas cytokines serve as messengers, informing and signaling the immune system to launch an attack against germs.
—Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2024
Despite the metadata caution, my advice remains to use WhatsApp as your daily messenger given its reach and to use Signal for anything more sensitive or secure.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Messenger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messenger. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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