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“I watched through all hours of the night and at one point screamed into my phone ‘YOU’VE GOT THIS, JACKIE!’ startling my entire family awake.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Wearing sunglasses, welding goggles, or watching through your phone will not offer protection either.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Fraser had deleted texts from his own phone to conceal his relationship with Broadus.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Using our last move as a comparison price, we ultimately saved $170 just by making a few phone calls.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
He hands me my phone, searches my face.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Some leap over flame as friends raise phones and cheer.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
I even treasured that weekend where we all kept refreshing our phones to see if Swift would drop pictures of her Dior gown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The restaurant also doesn’t allow people to talk on their phones inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Some fans do just that, but the packed stadium vibrates harder with cheers as thousands of phones stay in the air.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It’s so peaceful here. This is what life is all about. No cell phones, no iPods, no cars driving by polluting our lungs.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Salonen was on the jury of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition that Dudamel won and phoned Borda from Bamberg, famously describing the boyish Dudamel as “a conducting animal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It wasn't just 20 second phone calls, some people phoned me back so I had a few longer conversations," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The vote proved too close to call on Tuesday evening, but by Wednesday morning, El-Sayed had claimed the win, and Stevens had phoned him to concede.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Araghchi said in a social-media post that he phoned Russian and European Union leaders to say that Kyiv’s actions couldn’t go unanswered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
They also phoned our parents at their places of work and any other relatives or friends they could annoy.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
"It is really fun to go into a phone box on the chance you get someone phoning up who you have never met," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Over the next two years they became firm friends, texting and phoning each other when they were not at work.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
At a pivotal point in “The Christophers,” Lori explains how she can see that Julian was phoning it in during his later series of the titular paintings.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
A birthday kid from Long Island phoning his father on one of the rotary phones in the lobby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
The new watchman, Luno’s replacement, nearly fried when a falling cinder ignited the ticket shed, where he was phoning for help.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
