phone book
Example Sentences
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For the internet to become what we think of as the internet, you also needed people like Paul Mockapetris, who created the domain name system that is known as the phone book of the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
A different email address - [email protected] - is listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact labelled "Duke of York", a previously released image showed.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025
Mostly, it was just very boring, an opinion seemingly shared by Mark Wahlberg, who sounded like he was reading out of the phone book during his prayers.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025
They were all looking for a man named Steven Reisner, whom they had been dating; somehow, none of them had ever gotten his phone number, so they had found me in the phone book.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024
“Drag it on over and fetch my phone book that’s setting in the kitchen.”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
