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as in notice
a written communication giving information or directions
I'm waiting for the memorandum that will explain the new vacation policy
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as in letter
a message on paper from one person or group to another
the studio executives depend on endless memoranda to keep track of what's going on at a movie shot on location
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Recent Examples of memorandum
Two doctors made the diagnosis in 1999 during Corcoran's pre-sentencing memorandum, according to court records.
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Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Biden will issue two memorandums that prohibit future federal oil and gas leasing across large swaths of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, the two people said.
—Maxine Joselow The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 5 Jan. 2025
Trump will gather there with aides and members of Congress to sign nominations, along with any memorandums, proclamations or executive orders.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
Last month, the Egyptian government signed a memorandum of understanding with GEM to provide local artisans resources, expertise, and a platform to showcase their work at the museum’s gift shop.
—Costa Beavin Pappas, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Biden will issue two memorandums that prohibit future federal oil and gas leasing across large swaths of the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, the two people said.
—Maxine Joselow The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 5 Jan. 2025
Trump will gather there with aides and members of Congress to sign nominations, along with any memorandums, proclamations or executive orders.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
Last month, the Egyptian government signed a memorandum of understanding with GEM to provide local artisans resources, expertise, and a platform to showcase their work at the museum’s gift shop.
—Costa Beavin Pappas, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorandum
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But when the opportunity to make championship weight and step into a title fight on short notice was presented to Moicano, the enthusiastic Brazilian didn't need a second invitation.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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In 1949, during the Cold War era, the Soviet Union sent a withdrawal notice by telegram.—
Fatma Tanis,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
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Trump’s attorneys filed a cease-and-desist letter to the filmmakers and threatened to sue over future marketing or distribution of the movie.—
Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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The petition came after the brothers’ attorney submitted new evidence, including a letter purportedly written by Erik Menendez to his cousin, which alludes to alleged abuse uncovered by Robert Rand, a journalist who covered the case since its inception and author of The Menendez Murders.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Volunteers can help with everything from pension records, field notes made by geographers working on the Mason-Dixon line, to immigration and Census records.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
17 Jan. 2025
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Evanston-Skokie School District 65 Evanston-Skokie School District 65 finished out the 2023-2024 school year on a rough note when its Board of Education made the controversial decision to close Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies in Evanston in 2026.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Trump administration also issued a second order indefinitely halting the travel of Health and Human Services personnel, according to a second memo obtained by The Post.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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According to a memo filed by House Republicans, lawmakers have plans to undo former President Joe Biden's expansion of the TFP, which led to a 23 percent increase in SNAP benefits in 2021.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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One of the earliest witnesses to the spread of Christianity, the codex features the first epistle of Peter and the Book of Jonah.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN,
3 Apr. 2024
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Yet the novel evolved incrementally from public to private, epistle to narrative as the scope of the vision enlarged.—
David L. Ulin,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2024
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Nelson says participants use graphic notation to compose music – a process of documenting musical ideas using abstract representations of sound such as color, shape, or gesture, allowing quicker access to the music-making process than traditional systems allow.—
Gina Grillo,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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Folk songs, for example, are standards composed orally, given directly into the air, without notation and, therefore, without regard to property rights.—
E.L. Doctorow,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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This won’t stop the market from trading each flash headline about the cadence and scope of tariffs, the breadth of any immigrant deportation plans and sundry deregulatory declarations.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
21 Jan. 2025
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Given the unmet expectations from 2024 — and other recent seasons before that — the wait-and-see approach is almost always more advisable than making grand declarations about the Bears’ future. True or false?—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
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Anonymous sources linked to Trump acknowledged to Reuters that the difficulty of implementing many directives will slow things down, and predicted more orders will be released in the days and weeks after Inauguration Day, rather than just on day one.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Still, only so much can be done through executive order, Sommers said, and the directives often have to go through a rulemaking process that takes time.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
19 Jan. 2025
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