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mobile

[moh-buhl, -beel, -bahyl] / ˈmoʊ bəl, -bil, -baɪl /


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Fifteen minutes later, district administrative offices urged people along riverbanks to evacuate, and at 09:35, precautionary warning notices were sent to mobile phones in affected areas.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Mobile-communications-service prices jumped 27% from a year earlier, largely due to a low comparison base after domestic mobile carriers offered fee discounts in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

"When I have meetings, for example at the Elysee now, I ask people to hand in their mobile phones," he said.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

The one tax base that isn’t mobile is land, but even land, if too heavily taxed, will be abandoned rather than being developed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

He navigated the dark, silent mobile home, hoping not to disturb Uncle Jet, who was sleeping on the couch in the living room until the hogan was cleaned.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Reform's Laura Anne Jones said the UK government message on "action to protect communities from the growing threat posed by wildfires" arrived on mobiles in English after an equivalent in the Welsh language.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Over time, her work expanded to include glass and brass mobiles and wall hangings, which are now sold in independent shops and museum gift stores across the country.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

The families worked closely at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where they funded a major expansion and filled its rooms with their Warhol paintings and Calder mobiles.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

The station has for several weeks been transformed into a "point of invincibility", providing a place of warmth for the population and for them to recharge their mobiles.

From Barron's Feb. 13, 2026

It is the fixity of its text that makes it an immutable mobile, and it is immutable mobiles that are needed if facts are to endure into the post-print age.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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