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Late Wednesday night, a text message arrived from a Boston Red Sox decision-maker.
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Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Consider setting up email or text message alerts to notify you of transactions.
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Harrison Jones, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
This simple holiday greeting between colleagues was, in fact, a landmark event in the history of telecommunications: Papworth had just sent the first text message.
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Scott Nover, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Mia Morales, a student at the academy and the youth council’s vice president, said in a text message that many of the students who marched have family members who are affected by federal immigration policy.
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Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2025
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First Known Use
1977, in the meaning defined above
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“Text message.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/text%20message. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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text message
noun
: a short message sent electronically usually from one cell phone to another
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