phone
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Paddick took out her phone to begin recording.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
It alleged Google pressured phone makers using Android to pre-install its search engine and Google Chrome browser -- essentially shutting out rivals.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
"There's a million different ones. Different times of the day," says the 30-year-old as she scrolls through the alerts on her phone.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Individual borrowing on margin adds buying pressure in the stock market, said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide, in a phone interview Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Her phone flashlight dies, but thankfully the storm sounds like it’s winding down.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Apart from phones and rentals, strategist Jim Reid notes Tokyo restaurants are cheaper than Warsaw and Prague, and a two-thirds cheaper than New York or Zurich.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"At least we can benefit: we can get phones, come back with cash we are promised by these leaders."
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Apple unveils new phones and other hardware each fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
They searched the house, took the family's phones, and returned the next morning, he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
People cram together under the awning outside the bagel shop and talk too loudly on their phones.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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
She frantically phoned hospitals and the police, thinking he was dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Salcedo phoned his family from the hotel at 5 p.m. and said he hoped to arrive in his hometown of Nueva Bolivia, about 300 miles away, the next day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Jose phoned me because I was arguing with Michael Carrick and Ashley Young," McTominay recalled.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
“When I phoned my apartment,” Rick said, “why didn’t I get my wife?”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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
He then fled on foot, phoning his girlfriend to collect him.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
A birthday kid from Long Island phoning his father on one of the rotary phones in the lobby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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
Bobby, crestfallen, recalled: “I went to the phone booth and called my mother to tell her the bad news. In the booth next to me was Bisguier, phoning his good news to his family.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
