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Dialling down the triumphalism and uniting the country is proving a spectacular success.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2020

Dialling, listening to it ring, I reflected on the role reversal.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2016

Dialling on a freephone number rather than the expensive line most companies display most prominently, he negotiates his own deal.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2016

Dialling, the art, of making sundials; also the art and practice of mine-surveying, in which the theodolite and magnetic needle are employed.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Of course I am acquainted with Leadbetter's Art of Dialling, and the curious list of mottoes he gives, together with the still more curious translations of the same; as e.g.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various