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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

Some part of this Arte, was called in olde time, Gnomonice: and of late, Horologiographia: and in Englishe, may be termed, Dialling.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John