phone company
Example Sentences
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And it’s anyone’s guess as to whether you should call the phone company or the cable company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Adams drew on his experience as a bank teller and manager at a phone company Pacific Bell for inspiration, skewering corporate jargon and middle management.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Bill O’Neill, who was Adams’s boss at Pacific Bell in the mid-1990s, told The Wall Street Journal that the cartoonist was a focused and hardworking employee at the phone company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
It was widely reported at the time that someone had contacted the phone company, posed as Mr. Rose and sought his records.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
The calls came in to a central operator sitting at a switchboard at the phone company downtown.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
