telephone

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

In August alone, some 40 locomotives were attacked across Ukraine, Pertsovsky told AFP in a telephone interview.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

It was during a telephone consultation in June that they found out their embryos would be destroyed.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

This led to a long, profitable, well-publicized run as a familiar New York character: the courthouse fixer, connoisseur of the high life, agent of influence and lawyer who largely practiced law on the telephone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“Don’t telephone anyone. You can go back to your switchboard.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

At the heart of Britain's coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

By the early 20th century, typewriters and telephones were standard office equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

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

The intention was that they would go to work in hospitals to support acutely ill patients but some were sent to do administration, to deliver parcels and to answer telephones, the inquiry heard.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

Was it always so, or did they multiply vastly, along with telephones and new shoes and transistor radios and cellophane-wrapped tomatoes, in our absence?

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

She telephoned famous anthropologist Louis Leakey out of the blue just hoping for some advice.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

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

He had telephoned Watkins at the London Hospital and asked to see him later that day.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2024

Thank heaven Beatrice had telephoned that she could not get over.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

I asked the English-speaking one if he would please do me the favor of telephoning Dr. Omar Azzam at the number I had.

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