telephone directory
Example Sentences
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“A telephone directory! Do you have a London telephone directory?”
From Literature
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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.
Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.
From Los Angeles Times
To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.
From BBC
“We called it the telephone directory,” his widow, Eda, told me.
From Washington Post
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