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The footage shows the documentary crew regularly traveling with Graham, sitting in the back seat and filming as he takes phone calls from the front seat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Around three hours later, Palade testified that he contacted Stout by phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
In response to this, Thune told reporters that “maybe she or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes.”
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
She must also surrender her passport, adhere to a curfew, provide her phone number to gardaí, and sign on daily at garda station in County Kildare.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s two minutes long and features various clips from police dash cams and cell phone footage from witnesses.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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She said one pulled on the door handle and pounded on her window, while the other two approached and took their phones out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Many others, clearly bored, felt the need to turn on their phones to check the sports scores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Platforms such as Snabbit, Pronto and Urban Company function much like ride-hailing apps -- workers receive bookings online, travel to assigned homes and clock in on their phones.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
It’s already a fraught time for younger applicants, including the 20-something job hunters doing interviews on their phones instead of on a computer.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
However, my dad doesn’t believe middle schoolers should have phones.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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He said he received confirmation of the death after his assistant phoned local police.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He phoned into CNN’s “State of the Union” and NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning to share his memories of Graham.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Brian's sister, Allison Duncan, said that her brother - Brian's twin - had phoned her to say that Brian had died.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
She frantically phoned hospitals and the police, thinking he was dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
She phoned my mum that evening and one week later I was taken to see Mrs. de Roo, the speech therapist at Malvern Link Clinic.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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At a pivotal point in “The Christophers,” Lori explains how she can see that Julian was phoning it in during his later series of the titular paintings.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
"It's hard to navigate and it's hard to understand why they're phoning England when they should be phoning here and they get treatment here."
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026
A birthday kid from Long Island phoning his father on one of the rotary phones in the lobby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Kruyer says this used to involve hours of phoning around.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
Barack had to make a difficult call, phoning the pastor and asking whether he'd be willing to step back from the spotlight, giving us a private backstage blessing instead.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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