telephone booth
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Wilber grabbed the notebook he carried around with his family’s information and tossed it the man, who headed straight to a telephone booth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
I was standing in a containment cage, a contraption smaller than a telephone booth made of steel and mesh wire.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024
A UK-style red telephone booth sits on one corner, Norwegian flags festoon posts and staircases and a “Velkommen til Poulsbo!” mural and monstrous Viking invite day-trippers and weekend stays.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
If qubits get close enough together, Nadkishore explained, they can influence the behavior of their neighbors, almost like a crowd of people trying to squeeze themselves into a telephone booth.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
She figured that he must have stopped at a nearby drugstore to use the telephone booth when I later told her that Malcolm X had telephoned me upstate at about 3:30 that afternoon.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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