telephone

There is a lot of misinformation out there, and a lot of people are just running with it, kind of like a case of broken telephone.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Our internet is not stable the way the old copper landline telephone is.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The exercise covered 298 interactions across branches and by telephone, and rated 28% of cases as good or very good, 38% as fair, 20% as poor and 14% as very poor.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

As a teenager, he interned for Comcast, spending high school and college summers climbing telephone poles and selling cable subscriptions door to door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The visit with the neighbor, the telephone company, the conversation at the train yard.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

So far, the French platform has not monetised carpooling in India, where people pay each other directly, often using the popular digital UPI mobile telephones payment systems.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

You may think you are a book publisher or a soap maker or a dealer in vintage telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Pakistan has so far walked the tightrope between Iran and the US, passing messages between the two sides, hosting foreign ministers from other concerned Muslim nations and hitting the diplomatic telephones.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The U.S. government broke up AT&T in 1982 because a company owning phone lines and telephones was anticompetitive.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

There were two television sets, one in each room, and he counted five telephones: two in each room and one in the bathroom.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

She telephoned famous anthropologist Louis Leakey out of the blue just hoping for some advice.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

Kawther describes an agonising wait on the day the children were due to arrive until finally Unicef telephoned.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025

According to testimony from a former agriculture official, Menendez telephoned one day to order him to stand down in his efforts to oppose the monopoly.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

A junior at North Carolina College, Brown telephoned a few of his college friends and asked what they thought.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

She then spent a further period of time telephoning the A&E department but again could not get through, despite Frost being "significantly unwell".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

One of them, a tax attorney named Gordon, was coaxed onto stage for the purpose of publicly telephoning his wife.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023

The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

He set himself to texting and telephoning people, and he talked to everyone with an extreme gentleness Jule hadn’t known he possessed.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart