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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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In a telephone interview with ABC News, Trump said that he had received "calls about" Hegseth, but added that he had "every intention" of keeping him.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The family received only one telephone call from him, lasting less than one minute, on the day after his arrest, Justice Abroad said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

The harness carried a telephone with video instructions for attaching himself with carabiners to the winch of the drone that would transport him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

As she played a game of telephone with the clinics, Vanessa ran into a complexity inherent to contraceptive research and development, itself a direly underfunded field.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

I wish you had a telephone, even to hear your voices for a moment, but a letter will also make me happy.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

Pakistan has so far walked the tightrope between Iran and the US, passing messages between the two sides, hosting foreign ministers from other concerned Muslim nations and hitting the diplomatic telephones.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

But it was clear the innovation wouldn’t necessarily be limited to telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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

Other people—unused to telephones all their lives until immediately after World War II when the present system was installed—still, some twenty-odd years later, automatically answered anything that gave off an urgent blast.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The information on Tice was passed up to Hassan, Abu Ali says, who is then said to have telephoned Assad.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

They looked up the transaction in their day-book and letter-book, and at once telephoned to their King’s Cross office for more details.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

She then spent a further period of time telephoning the A&E department but again could not get through, despite Frost being "significantly unwell".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

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

Firefighters broke through doors apartment by apartment in the search for anyone left inside and followed up by telephoning residents who remained unaccounted-for.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

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

I thought about telephoning her and calling it off, making some excuse.

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


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