Dear John letter
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Maybe only on second reading do we realize that we’ve been reading a kind of Dear John letter to America.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
Later that evening, he finally unearthed the bank’s Dear John letter: “Financial institutions have an obligation to know our customers and monitor transactions,” it said.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2023
Did anybody else find it terribly coincidental that Urban Meyer got a Dear John letter from the Jaguars on college football’s National Letter of Intent Day?
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2021
She wrote me a Dear John letter – which she left on the flea market dresser where the tea service had been — but took the ring.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2013
I had been right about her writing him a Dear John letter, and it really messed him up.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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