person-to-person
Example Sentences
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Yep, old-fashioned PBX boards picking up long-distance calls, coin-box calls, person-to-person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“Whereas in Chile, person-to-person transmission is rare, but when it occurs, it tends to occur in small clusters within families living in the same home, and no more than a handful of cases per cluster.”
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
"We have to take this very seriously. We have to shake hands eye-to-eye, person-to-person, and to discuss what is best for the US and Brazil."
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
The first method is person-to-person scams, which involve either pretending to be a family or a friend, often in an emergency situation.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
Maybe that was enough for the telephone operator to help me call him person-to-person from a phone booth.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
