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delivery

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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.

The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Norman Cousins

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. Madonna (entertainer)

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job. Matt Taibbi

The United States hastens the delivery of arms to the puppet governments they see as being increasingly threatened; it makes them sign pacts of dependence to legally facilitate the shipment of instruments of repression and death and of troops to use them. Che Guevara

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do. Whitney Houston

The cow has a bad delivery though her owner is present. Kikuyu Proverb

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