telephone
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"She was sounding fairly healthy," her son, Kim Aris, told AFP after the telephone conversation, which he said was the first time he had spoken to his mother in more than five years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Western Electric’s clear-cased Model 302 telephone enticed gawkers with an impressively complex system of wires and mechanisms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
When public prosecutors tapped telephone calls at Italian football giants Juventus in 2004, they were hunting for evidence of doping.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
I want away from my switchboard and my headset and the telephone lines that feel like they connect all the way to France.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Myanmar's presidential spokeswoman released photographs of Suu Kyi and Aris speaking into telephones, the detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate sitting under a calendar marked with Thursday's date.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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
By the early 20th century, typewriters and telephones were standard office equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
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
Lourdes telephones her husband at noon but nobody is home.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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The players who were not selected were telephoned by Tuchel and told the news, beginning late on Thursday afternoon.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
At some point in the ’70s or ’80s, Kauffman said, his brother telephoned him for a brief chat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
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
The night of the phenomenal upset, when Clay did beat Liston, Malcolm X telephoned me, and sounds of excitement were in the background.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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The Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an online advice service or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
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
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