phone
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They haven’t met in person but have spoken by phone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
CEUTA, Spain—Obaid Aleilmi woke up on a recent afternoon, after working the night shift, to a flood of messages on his phone saying the border was open.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Last year BT reviewed 47 phone boxes in the Western Isles, with 42 eventually marked for removal.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The phone box in Einacleit - or Enaclete - appealed to him as what is believed to be the last remaining connected double-door telephone kiosk in the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
He hands me my phone, searches my face.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Many still made it through, planning their crossings with waterproof bags for phones, cash and other essentials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The restaurant also doesn’t allow people to talk on their phones inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
No phones in your meetings; there must be only two people on any company email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some fans do just that, but the packed stadium vibrates harder with cheers as thousands of phones stay in the air.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
All my friends have cell phones, and yet none of them have called me.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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
Araghchi said in a social-media post that he phoned Russian and European Union leaders to say that Kyiv’s actions couldn’t go unanswered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
He said he received confirmation of the death after his assistant phoned local police.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He phoned into CNN’s “State of the Union” and NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning to share his memories of Graham.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Dad phoned the people who had made my legs and they said it could be repaired by anyone who had a spot welder.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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
"We started to pester and we were phoning, and we were going back and forward to the home," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
"You kind of sit and think, 'Oh, isn't technology great', until you have to do the traditional old thing of actually phoning somebody."
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
When he wasn’t there, we were phoning every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
She’ll be phoning Mr. Frost's house over and over to find out when I’m going to get back.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
