telephone

This led to a long, profitable, well-publicized run as a familiar New York character: the courthouse fixer, connoisseur of the high life, agent of influence and lawyer who largely practiced law on the telephone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

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

In addition to serving more than 5 million homes, they also provide telephone service to 1.5 million subscribers in the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Our job was not in itself complicated: Answer the line, match the code name to a number, insert the right plug into the right jack, connect the telephone call.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

"We look at all of the data we have in our telephones, CCTV, the audio. There's that wealth of documentary evidence. And of course, when you go back such a long time, witnesses pass away."

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

You may think you are a book publisher or a soap maker or a dealer in vintage telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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

Working telephones ring in the houses of neighbors.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

She telephoned famous anthropologist Louis Leakey out of the blue just hoping for some advice.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

At some point in the ’70s or ’80s, Kauffman said, his brother telephoned him for a brief chat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

He had a few minutes before the train left, and he telephoned home to Mother from a pay booth in the station.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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 Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an online advice service or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025

Firefighters broke through doors apartment by apartment in the search for anyone left inside and followed up by telephoning residents who remained unaccounted-for.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

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

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols