telephone directory
Example Sentences
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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
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
To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
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
I contacted an acquaintance in America who helped me retrieve your address through a telephone directory in the library.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
