cold call
Example Sentences
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I'm going to run a little experiment, and people that I would normally shoot an email to with some ideas, I'm just going to cold call them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
On 4 August, Carter made a cold call to visit Calocane at an address where he no longer lived.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Back then, Taylor received a cold call from the CEO of BMG, Hartwig Masuch.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2023
“It’s not a cold call, but a quicker way to vulnerability and hitting the royal flush.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The company’s marketing manager, Rajesh Rao, told me that he had just made a cold call to the VP for engineering of a U.S. company, trying to drum up business.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
