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A messenger.

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  • The bicycle courier rode all over the city delivering messages.
  • But in the Dead Run world, being a courier is deadly business.
  • Olafsson Qing (a courier from the Confederation of Central Worlds)
  • In the very beginning of 1953, a courier from the Udereiskii Regional
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  • The "courier" (special messenger) delivered a flattering message from a "currier" (someone who tries to win favor by flattery).
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