telephone

As she played a game of telephone with the clinics, Vanessa ran into a complexity inherent to contraceptive research and development, itself a direly underfunded field.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

"She was sounding fairly healthy," her son, Kim Aris, told AFP after the telephone conversation, which he said was the first time he had spoken to his mother in more than five years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Western Electric’s clear-cased Model 302 telephone enticed gawkers with an impressively complex system of wires and mechanisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

I was literally stapling posters to telephone poles—“playing here on Friday.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Oh, sure, she’d seemed fairly reasonable at first, except for being scared to talk on the telephone.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Myanmar's presidential spokeswoman released photographs of Suu Kyi and Aris speaking into telephones, the detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate sitting under a calendar marked with Thursday's date.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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

The intention was that they would go to work in hospitals to support acutely ill patients but some were sent to do administration, to deliver parcels and to answer telephones, the inquiry heard.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

Then I left the bar and went out where the telephones were.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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

Her mother had no idea where she was and telephoned my house looking for her.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

The Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an extended service on Thursday and Friday online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

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