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delivery
noun as in transfer, transmittal
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carting, commitment, conveyance, dispatch, drop, mailing, portage, post, rendition, surrender
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freighting, giving over, handing over, impartment, intrusting, parcel post
noun as in articulation of message
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accent, diction, elocution, emphasis, enunciation, inflection, intonation, modulation, pronunciation, speech, utterance
noun as in childbirth
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accouchement, bearing, birthing, childbearing, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturition, travail
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noun as in giving of freedom
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deliverance, emancipation, escape, freeing, liberation, pardon, rescue, salvage, salvation
Example Sentences
Detectives opened an abduction investigation after the teenager was found by a delivery driver who spotted him walking on a road.
It is a hard delivery to control and I was a player who liked to feel in control of what I was doing all the time.
At present, customers ordering knives on Amazon, for example, are asked to enter their date of birth and told: "Proof of age and a signature will be required on delivery".
The contrast between Trump's lifeless delivery and the text of the speech was uncanny.
They both praise his delivery, if not his policies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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