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as in deliveryman
a person who delivers goods to customers usually over a regular local route
we eagerly took the food and tipped the deliverer
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as in savior
one that saves from danger or destruction
the surviving passengers thanked their deliverers profusely
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Recent Examples of deliverer
The first-ever woman — and the first-ever Black person — to win the Cinematography Oscar was also the deliverer of one of the night’s most iconic speeches.
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
But time is as sure a deliverer of adulthood as therapy is.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
With the water at the low levels, the water authority is unable to use its $200 million hydroelectric Cielo pump station that deliverers renewable energy to 26,000 homes and transfers low-cost water to the Olivenhain Reservoir and SFID’s RE Badger Filtration plant.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
The portrait of a gig worker thrashing to stay afloat recalls last year’s powerful migrant drama, The Story of Souleymane, which followed an African food deliverer in Paris.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Amadou worked as a food deliverer, and arrived in the United States in 2023 from his home country, Guinea.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
But time is as sure a deliverer of adulthood as therapy is.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
With the water at the low levels, the water authority is unable to use its $200 million hydroelectric Cielo pump station that deliverers renewable energy to 26,000 homes and transfers low-cost water to the Olivenhain Reservoir and SFID’s RE Badger Filtration plant.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
The portrait of a gig worker thrashing to stay afloat recalls last year’s powerful migrant drama, The Story of Souleymane, which followed an African food deliverer in Paris.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Amadou worked as a food deliverer, and arrived in the United States in 2023 from his home country, Guinea.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deliverer
Noun
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A week later, a deliveryman showed up at the couple’s home with a pizza.—
Oriana van Praag,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Defense lawyer James Thiros wrote Johnson was only the drug runner, or deliveryman.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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His savior was the experimental documentarian Harun Farocki, famous for provocative works that skewered bourgeois complacency.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Supplementing the procedure, Vargas used her brand’s skin care salves and saviors on my face.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
15 Mar. 2026
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The bill would require couriers in charge of the cash exports to disclose additional information about the beneficiaries of the outbound cash, reporting any money heading to countries of concern, including state sponsors of terrorism and destinations identified as high-risk by the State Department.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2026
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After freeing a man who was convicted in a pizza delivery driver’s slaying, the state’s Parole Board has rejected releasing an accomplice who fatally stabbed the food courier.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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The messenger – idealistic French emigré, Charles Darnay (François Civil) – is arrested and charged with treason.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2026
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Instead, the messenger continued to grow in popularity and is widely used by Russian state officials and Kremlin propagandists.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Deliverer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deliverer. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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