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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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Georgi Kinkladze, there'll be Manchester City fans from a previous generation who'll remember him, who could get past people in a telephone box.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

“We’ve known for weeks they were coming, they even said they knew where the police were located,” he said in a telephone interview from the airport as he was returning to Haiti from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

He would also be allowed to meet with his family once a week and speak to his sons via telephone twice weekly, the court order stated.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

One of that film’s memorable scenes featured Kirby in a tense trivia telephone showdown with the Ghostface killer, rushing through the titles of several slasher films while attempting to save one of her friends.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

During the day, telephone calls are meant for business: banks and couriers and department stores and the post office.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

"Do you know about the goddess phones?" she asked, sitting down in what she called her "throne" next to a collection of bejewelled old-fashioned telephones.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

So far, the French platform has not monetised carpooling in India, where people pay each other directly, often using the popular digital UPI mobile telephones payment systems.

From Barron's May 31, 2026

But it was clear the innovation wouldn’t necessarily be limited to telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

The U.S. government broke up AT&T in 1982 because a company owning phone lines and telephones was anticompetitive.

From MarketWatch Nov. 19, 2025

Electric power and telephones went out with the first blast, as we knew they must.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

According to testimony from a former agriculture official, Menendez telephoned one day to order him to stand down in his efforts to oppose the monopoly.

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2024

"I just telephoned Ashley Judd, the first actress to come forward with allegations against Mr. Weinstein, and shared the news from the court," Kantor wrote in the update.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2024

His former campaign manager Katie Fieldhouse has told the BBC Mr Menzies telephoned at 0315 one night in December asking for £5,000 to pay "bad people" who had locked him in a flat.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2024

I telephoned my Muslim friend, as he had asked, and the Hajj party of his friends was waiting for me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

She then spent a further period of time telephoning the A&E department but again could not get through, despite Frost being "significantly unwell".

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

In her book, Harris recounts the hours after Biden’s sudden withdrawal, when she began telephoning top Democrats around the country to lock in their support.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 28, 2025

The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.

From New York Times Feb. 26, 2023

Haney works as a contact tracer for Loudoun, telephoning people who, typically unwittingly, were recently near a person whose test results for the virus came back positive.

From Washington Post Jul. 30, 2021

I went along it for a while, but it got thicker and thicker, and all the time Earl probably telephoning home about where I was and getting Mother all upset again.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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