dial
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It’s always helpful to have a trust-and-estate attorney on speed dial.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Maybe it’s just a matter of time that the Chargers don’t have much of, cramming to learn McDaniel’s methods, to dial in the timing and coordination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Pockets of return are nice, but that’s not going to move the dial on earnings per share. The only thing that does that is if we implement at scale reliably.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
These engines are highly complex and it takes time for teams to dial into them so they are working at their optimum.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
At home in Brooklyn, you turned the dial six or seven times to see what was on the other channels.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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The Reduce’s big brother — the original Speedmaster — was introduced by Omega in 1957 as a racing chronograph, designed with a tachymetre bezel, a face with multiple dials and a stopwatch function.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
Part of that included disposing of glowing dials, which were made using radium-226.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
It also immediately dials up pressure on the White House from consumers and businesses who are seeking payback.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
After his grandparents went to bed, he rigged up an antenna and toyed with the radio dials, tuning in a German-language newscast on the BBC.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
The wrong pressure could be dialed into the catapult system used to launch the planes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He was a senior in high school at the time and remembered how much attention was dialed into the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Mac picked up the kitchen phone and dialed.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
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Burnham's comments come after it emerged that one of the five men had dialled 999 himself before the group were arrested.
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
Stewart Irwin, from Carlisle, finally dialled 999 in the early afternoon of 28 July 2023, and told the call handler his mother's skin had "started to turn blue".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
He then picked up the phone without any perceptible hesitation and dialled a local number.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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They were dialing back those expectations late-morning Wednesday to a 37.1% probability, after a reading on August inflation from the personal consumption expenditures price index showed that its year-over-year climb eased to 3.4%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
But rather than dialing anything back, the big players are just revving their engines more and more.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
On a recent summer Sunday afternoon, Brooks Hiller was hunkered over his laptop at his apartment in Chicago, dialing in to hour three of a marathon series of conference calls on real-estate deals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
It seems daunting dialing in that depth and breadth within “The Pitt’s” hour-by-hour format.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
I start dialing, enter my PIN, enter my own number.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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Anyone becoming unwell with symptoms of meningitis or sepsis should seek medical help urgently at the closest Accident and Emergency Department or by dialling 999.
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
"I started dialling numbers on my mobile phone like crazy, but I couldn't get in touch with my wife and children," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Help is also available in the US and Canada by dialling 988.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 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
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