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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

Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 4, 2024

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

At Phoebe’s house, we examined the telephone directory.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech



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