postcard
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postcards
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Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
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The finished "postcard" follows the style of similar Curiosity images created in the past, including one taken in November 2021.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
But think of this year’s event as a postcard from the future.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
And every morning, after his 0530 swim, he writes a thank you postcard to everyone who has included an address.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The sun on it, the salt, the particular blue no postcard has ever gotten right — it reconnects me to my own being, returns me to whatever I was before the world got complicated.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
"My grandma sent me a postcard from Florida," Rosie said, "and it had an alligator on it."
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Dozens of vintage photos of the Clark’s ballrooms, restaurants, ashtrays, room keys, menus, postcards, matchbooks, coat hangers and candleholders are visible at BunkerHillLos Angeles.com, having been gathered by Marsak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Sometimes they learn about the annuities after receiving postcards in the mail inviting them to free lunches or dinners where they are pitched the products, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
When there was no action during his reelection campaign this year, they demonstrated outside his home, sent postcards to his campaign donors and pushed for the cancellation of one of his fundraisers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Joe Hanlon, who runs Cotswold Dry Stone in Gloucestershire, says it has long been a "defining feature" of the local area, often featuring on picturesque postcards.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
I think about the two postcards stashed inside my pillowcase.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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