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You can use the phrase "instant messages" when referring to text-based messages sent over a messaging app or website. For example, "Subsequent to our phone call, I sent her a few instant messages to confirm our plans."
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Instant messages
verb
Third person singular of instant message
Exact(60)
Instant messages, news tickers and games like solitaire beckon too.
Instant messages blink on continually as staffers try to stay on the same page.
Instant messages mostly; an occasional text or e-mail.
Instant messages and emails will distract you.
Today instant messages are often group chats.
Soon they were exchanging instant messages.
You can then exchange instant messages.
They exchanged instant messages just once.
We argued in a flurry of instant messages.
When Randy and I exchanged instant messages, I felt anchored.
They exchanged instant messages for three hours that afternoon.
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