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telephone directory

NOUN
directory of telephone numbers
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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

"I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - I could have shot the telephone directory with those two," he recalls.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2024

The result was no-frills, but functional and inspiring enough to land on the cover of the telephone directory and nab design awards.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2016

He stalled by reading from the Washington telephone directory and giving his colleagues his recipes for “pot-likker,” corn bread, and turnip greens.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2016

He found a telephone directory in a filling station and he wrote the name of the town on their map with a pencil.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy



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