as in epistle
a message on paper from one person or group to another
he faithfully wrote her a letter every week they were apart
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as in landlord
the owner of land or housing that is rented to another
it is the letter of the apartment—not the lessee—who is responsible for basic repair and upkeep
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Recent Examples of letter
Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2025
Ditto for Judge David Orson Carter, of the Central District of California, who lettered in track and field at UCLA.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Nate Raymond, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved these measures, according to a letter dated July 15.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 July 2025
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Noun
His father, David Braxton, lettered from 1986 to 1988 as a defensive end at Wake Forest and was a second-round draft pick in 1989 by the Minnesota Vikings.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2025
Ditto for Judge David Orson Carter, of the Central District of California, who lettered in track and field at UCLA.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
Those demands, outlined in an April 11 letter from an administration task force, included calls for the private university to restructure its governance, alter its hiring and admissions practices to ensure an ideological balance of viewpoints and end certain academic programs.
—Nate Raymond, USA Today, 22 July 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved these measures, according to a letter dated July 15.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 July 2025
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Verb
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In June, several Republican U.S. lawmakers from Arizona and Texas who usually side with Trump's Make American Great Again policies wrote a letter to the Commerce Secretary imploring the Trump administration not to end the Tomato Suspension Agreement.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
22 July 2025
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Much has been written about the challenges facing legacy brands in today’s hyper-competitive business environment.—
Roger Trapp,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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In his new interview with Andrew Callaghan, Hunter offered a particularly scathing takedown of George Clooney, who famously penned an op-ed for The New York Times in July 2024 that publicly urged Biden to drop out of the race.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
21 July 2025
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The Bergmans, who penned hundreds of songs, mostly for movies and TV, bridged the traditional Great American Songbook era of Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin with the more modern pop sensibility of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.—
Jon Burlingame,
Variety,
18 July 2025
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Every single Bronco offensive lineman that played a snap in 2024, as printed in this space multiple times before, is back for 2025.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
13 July 2025
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On paper, in July, that means about as much as the paper it’s printed on, though.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Most of the show’s music moments were already penciled into the treatment when Dunham and Felber pitched Netflix the show, and many of them came from those initial playlists.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
12 July 2025
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That surcharge alone erodes a meaningful slice of Qatar’s margin advantage over Henry-Hub-linked U.S. cargoes and is already pencilled into 2026 LNG tender models.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Sony Group Corporation has inked a strategic business alliance with anime and gaming powerhouse Bandai Namco Holdings Inc., with the electronics and entertainment conglomerate also acquiring a 2.5% stake in the company for approximately JPY68 billion ($464 million).—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
24 July 2025
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Blue Ant Studios, an international production studio and rights business, inked the deal with the U.K. channel to release the film at 9 p.m. London time on Aug. 18.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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“Letter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/letter. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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