carrier
noun
a person or thing that carries.
carriers
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pluralof carrier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said carriers backed the government's target of net zero by 2050 but added that the transition "has to be affordable".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The airline flies for carriers such as Amazon and DHL Express.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tiny packets of mechanical vibration called phonons can then serve as carriers that move information between qubit nodes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The WSJ’s Andrew Tangel and Hanna Krueger write that 21 Air flies for carriers such as Amazon and DHL Express and has expanded rapidly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
By 1910, the greatest minds in biology had accepted that discrete particles of information carried on chromosomes were the carriers of hereditary information.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
