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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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“Our internet is not stable the way the old copper landline telephone is.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

The exercise covered 298 interactions across branches and by telephone, and rated 28% of cases as good or very good, 38% as fair, 20% as poor and 14% as very poor.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

As a teenager, he interned for Comcast, spending high school and college summers climbing telephone poles and selling cable subscriptions door to door.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

"The kids are going to school because they can pay for the school fees. They can pay for medical bills in the hospital and buy medicine," she told AFP in a telephone interview.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

But my plan felt complete the moment we heard Mom’s voice on the other end of the telephone.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

"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

So far, the French platform has not monetised carpooling in India, where people pay each other directly, often using the popular digital UPI mobile telephones payment systems.

From Barron's May 31, 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

He was downrange with one of the old mine telephones O’Dell and Roy Lee had acquired from the mule barn and for which, I remembered, we still owed Mr. Van Dyke.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

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

"I just telephoned Ashley Judd, the first actress to come forward with allegations against Mr. Weinstein, and shared the news from the court," Kantor wrote in the update.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2024

As the storm gained intensity, a desperate Andrade telephoned her sister, Yesmin Andrade Rodríguez, 37, from the wavering craft.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2023

Howard telephoned him back, reminding him that it was $100,000 or nothing.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

In her book, Harris recounts the hours after Biden’s sudden withdrawal, when she began telephoning top Democrats around the country to lock in their support.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 28, 2025

The Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an extended service on Thursday and Friday online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2022

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

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

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke




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