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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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But the young women who would have become telephone operators became stenographers, administrative assistants and waitresses instead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Large swathes of the island still have no electricity or telephone connectivity.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

The Roaring ’20s: Driven by easy credit and an industrial build-out of new technologies like the radio and the telephone, this historic bubble peaked on Sept. 3, 1929.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

I said this over a telephone, standing in a field of sheep.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

“So, is your plan to look for a public telephone at the train station and see if they have a Polk’s there?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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