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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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He told me that when he was growing up in Middletown, Ohio, his family didn’t own a car, a TV set or a telephone for much of his childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

“People who walk around with their telephone on speaker mode, loudly having public conversations,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Don’t answer a telephone number that you don’t recognize,” Sheinbaum warned people last week.

From Los Angeles Times

The cable hauler helped to load the first successful transatlantic telephone cable in 1956.

From BBC

"Had he telephoned, I would have understood his arguments and accepted the decision," he writes.

From BBC