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answering machine

noun as in voice mail

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An emergency dispatcher then called the woman but got her answering machine.

We are even allowed a glimpse into some of his most intimate relationships, thanks to never-erased answering machine messages – particularly with fellow artist Peter Hujar, whose life story was inextricably interwoven with his own.

He briefly had an answering machine, but he got rid of it because he got too many calls he didn’t want to return and he couldn’t claim not to know someone had called when he still had the machine.

I would never have said my family was rich—we seemed to be the last family I knew in the eighties to get a microwave and an answering machine—but maybe instead of a microwave, my parents wanted to go skiing.

They pass the buck, they tell you to call this person, and you are lucky if you can even get an answering machine.

He is presently being held on $1 million bail, which gives a twist to the message on the phone answering machine at his firm.

Basically, the answer we came up with was that it must be something like breaking into mobile answering machine messages.

But soon the lonely Chip begins stalking him, leaving tons of messages on his answering machine.

Their tryst, however, is broken up several times by messages playing from the answering machine and never comes to fruition.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to answering machine, such as: autoattendant, and telephone message storage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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