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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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Winters also advises "completely resetting" a loved ones digital footprint by changing telephone numbers, email address and social media accounts.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Microcap stocks prone to pump-and-dump trading used to be promoted by boiler-room brokers over the telephone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

This is roughly analogous to me asserting that running headfirst into a telephone pole at a full sprint will not affect my health because I do not “intend” to concuss myself.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

He has described how his father, a former telephone engineer, had raised him with "laughter, love and support" alongside his mother Eileen in Culcheth, Cheshire.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

“A telephone directory! Do you have a London telephone directory?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

When the fire alerts sounded on telephones, "I thought everything was going to burn, the house and everything," she said at the sports hall, where they sat dozing and eating snacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

"Do you know about the goddess phones?" she asked, sitting down in what she called her "throne" next to a collection of bejewelled old-fashioned telephones.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

You may think you are a book publisher or a soap maker or a dealer in vintage telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

The U.S. government broke up AT&T in 1982 because a company owning phone lines and telephones was anticompetitive.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

I have not been able to stop my mother’s screams in public libraries or over telephones.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

And in 2013, Petrini said he was "surprised" when Pope Francis telephoned him after he had sent him a book and a letter.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

At some point in the ’70s or ’80s, Kauffman said, his brother telephoned him for a brief chat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

According to testimony from a former agriculture official, Menendez telephoned one day to order him to stand down in his efforts to oppose the monopoly.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

When I turn that page in my notebook, the next bears a note that Malcolm X had telephoned me saying “I’m going to be out of town for a few days.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

The Department for the Economy's careers service is also offering advice online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2023

The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

Haney works as a contact tracer for Loudoun, telephoning people who, typically unwittingly, were recently near a person whose test results for the virus came back positive.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

She also did a great deal of telephoning and visited every bookshop in the town.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke




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