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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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At one point, he said, his telephone service was turned off, forcing him use a pay phone for calls.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Nearly a month later, Kean participated in a telephone interview with the New Jersey Globe and reiterated his intent to run for re-election and return to public life.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 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

“The young men were so rowdy,” one Red Cross volunteer said in a telephone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

I don’t have a telephone, Mr. Dannenberg had said the last time I was here, when Theo and I said we should have called first.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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