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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Philip Elliott, TIME, 3 June 2024
Want a link to your daily horoscope delivered directly to your inbox each weekday morning?
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
Want great gardening information delivered straight to your inbox?
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox.
—Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 31 May 2024
Sign up for our Weekly Apple Brief for the latest news, reviews, tips, and more delivered right to your inbox.
—PCMAG, 25 May 2024
Get the Robb Report newsletter for similar stories delivered straight to your inbox.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 22 May 2024
Monthly $7/month Get every issue of Notepad straight to your inbox.
—Tom Warren, The Verge, 21 May 2024
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“Inbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inbox. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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