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
"I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - I could have shot the telephone directory with those two," he recalls.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024
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
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
And then the house will be occupied by strangers, and there will be no trace that they were ever there, no house to enter, no name in the telephone directory.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
