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"That week my cousin, who hadn't done this before or since, just started to butt dial me every day and by the fifth day the light bulb moment came," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Kevin Warsh and colleagues cranked up the hawkish dial, voting unanimously and signaling more hikes are on the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Cardoso said he is in regular contact with the farm to dial in the restaurant’s needs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

“It may be smart to dial back expectations,” said Matt Schulz, LendingTree’s chief consumer-finance analyst.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Wait until Iran hears about this; he snatched the vidphone receiver, started to dial.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

When Lane Kiffin dials a number, the person on the other end usually answers and takes the call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Subscriptions could drive another $7 billion in revenue, Nowak said, and $2 of earnings growth, as the group begins “turning emerging monetization dials and creating new costs to compete for audiences and wallet share.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Nobody found joy watching the dials turn on their electricity meters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Part of that included disposing of glowing dials, which were made using radium-226.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

He caught a quick glance of two pilot chairs, windows above wide panels full of instruments and dials and screens flashing information.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

She dialed the Comanche Police Department, and within minutes, a sheriff’s deputy arrived, followed by emergency responders.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Recent numbers from Goldman Sachs’s prime brokerage unit showed equity-focused hedge funds have dialed back their net exposure to stocks to some of the lowest levels of the past year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

With the Bulldogs backed up against their goal line, Patterson dialed up a nickel blitz — and Fresno State didn’t account for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

European fossil fuel companies that once touted renewable goals, including Shell, BP and Norway’s Equinor, have dialed them back and doubled down on more profitable oil and gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

He waited one minute, dialed the same number, let it ring three times, and hung up.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The BBC understands that one of the men had dialled 999 himself, about an hour before a local farmer alerted police to a "large group" of masked men near the vehicles.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

One of five men arrested near RAF Fairford in the early hours of Sunday morning had dialled 999 himself, the BBC understands.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The central bank also dialled down its threat of interventions to weaken the franc by removing its reference to having an “increased willingness” to act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

"They phoned the airbase police, who didn't answer the phone. It just rang out so she dialled 999," he told the BBC.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

He then picked up the phone without any perceptible hesitation and dialled a local number.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

Safety concerns aside, investors appear to be dialing back their expectations for Anthropic’s IPO as new details about the company’s financials have emerged.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

But rather than dialing anything back, the big players are just revving their engines more and more.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

But make no mistake: by dialing up their otherwise elegant chamber pop with a little extra crunch and distortion, the players of Not for Radio came ready to rock out with the Daisy Chain crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“But Tehran is comfortable just dialing up the pressure.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Ms. Willis pulled out her phone and started dialing.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

Manchester's Nico O'Reilly has the city's 0161 dialling code tattooed on his arm, while Declan Rice keeps in touch with his old PE teacher at Grey Court School near Kingston upon Thames.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

This gives the heart a bigger job of pumping it around the body and it copes by dialling up the blood pressure - a bit like cranking the tap on a garden hose pipe.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday she believed US President Donald Trump still desires to own Greenland despite dialling back his recent threats to seize it by force.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

It will be filmed in a studio in New York, but with reporters dialling in from the England camp and fan zones.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

When he had finished dialling, he picked up his handkerchief from the desk and put it over the mouthpiece, quite loosely and mounted rather high.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger