as in couriers
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 messengers
Detectives located him by following the meandering path of laundry, sent to him by his wife, via multiple messengers.
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
These act as messengers between brain cells, helping manage your mood and focus.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 30 Apr. 2026
The Sleep Switch Inside Your Brain The team identified two chemical messengers in the hypothalamus that work like an accelerator and a brake.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
Inside a small region of the hypothalamus, two chemical messengers control the switch.
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
Some journalists draw a line between the government's mounting headaches and its escalating attacks on the messengers of that news.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
The most effective messengers are not grassroots activists or rising politicians but farmers, wildland firefighters, fishermen, cowboys, hunters, game wardens and foresters.
—Nadia Gill, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Paul Revere and other messengers on that night gave the colonists a chance to resist the British troops at the battles of Lexington and Concord.
—William Lambers, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
Revere was one of two riders to leave Boston (with Dawes), and one of many messengers spreading the alarm.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026
These act as messengers between brain cells, helping manage your mood and focus.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 30 Apr. 2026
The Sleep Switch Inside Your Brain The team identified two chemical messengers in the hypothalamus that work like an accelerator and a brake.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
Inside a small region of the hypothalamus, two chemical messengers control the switch.
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
Some journalists draw a line between the government's mounting headaches and its escalating attacks on the messengers of that news.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
The most effective messengers are not grassroots activists or rising politicians but farmers, wildland firefighters, fishermen, cowboys, hunters, game wardens and foresters.
—Nadia Gill, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Paul Revere and other messengers on that night gave the colonists a chance to resist the British troops at the battles of Lexington and Concord.
—William Lambers, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
Revere was one of two riders to leave Boston (with Dawes), and one of many messengers spreading the alarm.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for messengers
Noun
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Higher-level couriers in the United States are still being investigated.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Sam An, a pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy until 2021, told me that his workplace employed about twenty people—pharmacists, technicians, cashiers, couriers—in what resembled a chemistry laboratory.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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When runners are on base, the hitters are unable to drive them in for runs.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Nike had unveiled a radically new design for Breaking2, incorporating a curved carbon-fiber plate into a thick wedge of springy midsole foam, which external lab data suggested would make runners several percent faster.—
Alex Hutchinson,
The Atlantic,
28 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Messengers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messengers. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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