as in transmits
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
they promised to send the package in the morning
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Recent Examples of sends
Just hearing ‘set piece’ sends a shiver down Liverpool supporters’ spines.
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Andy Jones, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Now, Tapachula is experiencing a reverse migration, as the United States sends planeload after planeload of deportees to the southern part of Mexico while the flow of migrants headed north has dried up.
—Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Avery Pitts, Ulrich, Paul and Caroline Vaughan each started breakouts into the attack, only for Grace Hagan, Ella Dacey and Nadia Michienzi to cut them off with clean tackles and strong sends back up field.
—Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
Adam Sandler When the days are shorter and colder, something in the air sends us searching for comfort in music.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
His remarks come as China sends new signals on its crypto ambitions.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025
While European fashion capitals convert runway weeks into measurable economic engines—hotels booked, restaurants thriving, city tours sold out—Lagos stages brilliance, then sends everyone home.
—Essence, 6 Nov. 2025
The series kicks off with the films going head-to-head in a scandalous divorce case that sends shockwaves through boardrooms and courtrooms alike.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Among his campaign’s promises are free child care, free city bus service, city-run grocery stores and a new Department of Community Safety that would expand on an existing city initiative that sends mental health care workers, rather than police, to handle certain emergency calls.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sends
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The CubeSat takes a high-definition image of its surroundings every 2 minutes and transmits it to the laptop.—
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In one of his stories a fabricator of artificial eyes creates a portable surveillance camera in the form of an egg-size eyeball that transmits images to its creator.—
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To keep Desert Hills wet, Cave Creek now transports about 20% of its Colorado River water to the neighboring development, and that number has been growing as Desert Hills loses groundwater.—
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That melody transports you to another dimension.—
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Brushing is where someone ships an item to a person who did not actually order it as part of a scam to improve the seller’s rating on a platform such as Amazon.—
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Brushing is where someone ships an item to a person that did not actually order it as part of a scam to improve the seller’s rating on a platform such as Amazon.—
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But the teen-soap relationship dynamics among Clover and her friends are secondary to the gleeful creativity with which the movie dispatches them — over and over again.—
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So when hundreds of federal agents arrived in September, activists poured energy into an emergency hotline that dispatches response teams to gather intel, including names of those detained.—
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In these systems, a dye molecule absorbs light and transfers the energy to a catalyst surface.—
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According to the Israeli security agencies, the network receives, stores, and transfers Iranian funds from within Turkey.—
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“Sends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sends. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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