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telephone number

NOUN
assigned number for telephone
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Jeanne de Montagnac, 29, stood by her husband and two-year-old daughter, perched on his shoulders with a telephone number scribbled in biro pen on her arm.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

He didn’t have a telephone number, so I was just waiting for eight hours in front of his door until he came home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

People have contacted the service roughly 25 million times since July 2022, when the previous 10-digit telephone number officially converted to the shorter and more memorable 988.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

When questioned he had initially given a false name of John Lesley, but provided his real telephone number and police were able to ascertain his true identity.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

He pulls a tiny scrap of paper from a pants pocket with the telephone number of his uncle Marcos in Florida.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario



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