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phone

[fohn] / foʊn /


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AT&T T 0.95%increase; up pointing triangle boosted its full-year profit outlook after adding further subscribers for its postpaid phone service in the third quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

I greeted the door woman, bought a bottle of water, grabbed a bar stool against the far wall, and opened the book in progress on my phone until the show started.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

In a subsequent phone call, he repeated that he would not pursue an untruthful claim and said he would arrange for the £250 down payment to be repaid.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Investors feel they need some hedging,” Nick Elfner, co-head of research at Breckinridge Capital, said in a phone interview.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

A message, then, that he could not relay over the phone.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

One item I am very glad my generation was not brought up with is mobile phones.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It’s that we’ve become so accustomed to conducting ordinary life through our phones that we rarely stop to consider whether they’re necessary to the transaction in the first place.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

WattTime, an environmental tech nonprofit, helps companies time their electric vehicles, phones or other devices to periods when the energy is coming from cleaner power sources.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Those seven instances, the suit says, are evidence of a broader de facto policy to retain items—including Social Security cards, employment-authorization papers, phones and car keys—without any legal basis, in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“She would have stayed behind in case the phones came back on and I called.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

Ortiz said she phoned Lisinski Law for help to fight the removal proceedings, which the firm declined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

To say that there’s an interesting ethical conflict at work in “Animals”—an imprecise title—is not to say that the performances aren’t phoned in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

The vote proved too close to call on Tuesday evening, but by Wednesday morning, El-Sayed had claimed the win, and Stevens had phoned him to concede.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

And I said, “Who’s looking for me?” because I thought it might be Mother and the policeman in Swindon had phoned her up with the phone number I told him.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

"As soon as a flat comes onto the market, 50 people are phoning," she told AFP at the couple's new flat in suburban Madrid, where boxes lay unpacked.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Kaur says the family visited the West Bromwich branch of MPK to resolve the matter, but found it had closed, leaving them to try phoning Singh and his staff every day.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

People forget what shopping looked like before Amazon: flipping through glossy catalogs, mailing or phoning in orders and waiting weeks for delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

At a pivotal point in “The Christophers,” Lori explains how she can see that Julian was phoning it in during his later series of the titular paintings.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

“Yes...Has your mother...is she...does she know you’re phoning me?”

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman


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