variants
or in-box
plural inboxes or in-boxes
1
: a box or tray (as on a desk) for holding incoming interoffice mail
2
: a computer folder devoted to incoming email
One of my favorite rituals soon became scanning our email inbox, looking for your photographs … and reading the letters you sent …—
Amy Virshup
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—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
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—Graeme Taskerud, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
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The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025
Get a weekly roundup of news from India in your inbox every Thursday.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
Also, click here to subscribe to our newsletter bringing our top stories of the week straight to your inbox.
—Ronnie Li, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Related: Get more of SELF’s great fitness coverage delivered right to your inbox—for free.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 6 Feb. 2025
Forbes Daily: Join over 1 million Forbes Daily subscribers and get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential analysis of the day’s news in your inbox every weekday.
—Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2025
Weekly Newsletter Get your fix of JSTOR Daily’s best stories in your inbox each Thursday.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.
—Graeme Taskerud, The Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Inbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inbox. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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