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1. trademarkAlternative letter-case form of Gmail.

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Gmail.

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1. trademarkA web-based e-mail system provided by Google (trademarked Gmail).

   He has a Gmail account.

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   For now, it’s hard to conclude that Sunak will succeed in rebooting a government that’s been reset more times than most people’s Gmail passwords.

   2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian

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1. informalA Gmail account.

   Afterwards, when Alex had dozed off, I […] logged on to my Gmail. I sat, gazing at him sleeping and really didn’t know what to write.

   2009, Lindsey Kelk, chapter 21, in I Heart New York, London: Harper, →ISBN, page 267

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   [H]e saw an endless stack of Gmail accounts, one after the other. The tips of his fingers became cold as bone. He aimed at one of the Gmails and opened it, but he needed a user name and a password.

   2013, Andre Dubus III, “Listen Carefully as Our Options Have Changed”, in Dirty Love, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 47

   Then I switched to my Gmail and found a heart-melting email from Rustem (Jordan), who was born in Kazakhstan and then adopted by an American family.

   2022, Begaim Adilkhanova, “A Learning Journey by Being Far and Near: A Lesson Designed in the R2D2 Framework”, in Curtis J[ay] Bonk, Meina Zhu, editors, Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, Section 3 (Teaching With Technology), Introduction

2. informalAn e-mail sent using Gmail.

   My wife, Betty, for helping me get through the Gmails and the computer know-how.

   2023, Paul Nyberg, Willey’s I Wish I Were, New York, N.Y.: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN

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   Although the service was free, Google planned to make money. It would include ads, or “sponsored links,” with each Gmail. […] For example, if someone wrote about a planned vacation, the person receiving the Gmail might notice sponsored links for airlines, travel agencies, or car rentals. Did this mean someone at Google was reading the Gmails? No, but many users were uneasy and indignant.

   2010, Stephanie Sammartino McPherson, “Branching Out in All Directions”, in Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Founders of Google (USA Today Lifeline Biographies), Minneapolis, Minn.: Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 69

   Clearly he is alluding to the Gmails I sent parodying the well-known Dead Sea Scrolls pundit and distinguished department chairman Lawrence Schiffman of New York University—parodies that made him appear to be accusing himself of misconduct.

   2024, Raphael Golb, “A Small Controversy in Lower Manhattan”, in The Qumran Con: A Dead Sea Scrolls Memoir, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN

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1. ditransitiveinformalTo send (someone) an e-mail using Gmail.

   Gmail me!

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   I Googled my professor and found his home page . . . I Gmailed him my report.

   2008, Greg Holden, “Learning from Google: A 21st-Century Model for Success”, in Go Google: 20 Ways to Reach More Customers and Build Revenue with Google Business Tools, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, →ISBN, Part I (Getting Ready to Go Google), page 3

1. trademarkAlternative letter-case form of Gmail.

   Maybe you like GMail so much you want to switch ALL your e-mail to it.

   2007, Tara Calishain, Information Trapping: Real-time Research on the Web, page 231

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   There is a major controversy brewing around GMail, the “free” e-mail service from Google providing 1 gigabyte of free storage, far more than any other ISP offers.

   2004, Paul Greenberg, CRM at the Speed of Light, Third Edition: Essential Customer Strategies for the 21st Century, page 120

   I got in to the oh-so-awesome GMail network courtesy of a friend last week. Now, another e-mail id to look after? That is not exactly convenient.

   2004 May 18, Sushubh Mittal, “Google GMail – The Email Experience”, in Search Engine Journal