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For CFO Michael Katz, a two-hour Sunday phone call with the boss has become the norm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"I would like my stuff," he told the judge, mentioning some personal items including his phone.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Texts lit up my phone this morning from friends who had wasted most of their lives rooting for the Angels: Arte Moreno was finally selling the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
"Inside the school grounds it's not good to have your phone," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Jason dropped his phone and scanned the kitchen for a hidden camera.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Before entering 10C, everyone’s phones are locked away in a phone pouch that can be opened only by courthouse staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The pupils had been asked to hand over their phones, placing them in a dedicated numbered storage unit mounted on the classroom wall.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
She thinks young people in particular are drawn to gardening content because they're "more conscious now of putting their phones down".
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The alert targets individual cell towers with a radiowave-like signal, allowing all mobile phones in the area to pick it up without needing to know people's mobile numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Ophelia wasn’t surprised—the phones in Mirebalais worked half the time at best—but she still felt frustrated, and a little dejected.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Salonen was on the jury of the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition that Dudamel won and phoned Borda from Bamberg, famously describing the boyish Dudamel as “a conducting animal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He phoned people who chipped in to his Crowdfunder for the phone box project, as well as a few others to make up the numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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
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
The billionaire investor/philanthropist immediately phoned Alex Goldfarb, the Russian microbiologist and head of the Soros Foundation’s TB program in Russia.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
"I'm instantly broke, panic attack, phoning GPs, back on medication, anxiety through the roof," Gerry said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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
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
When he wasn’t there, we were phoning every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
My brain is big enough to hold only one ten-digit number, and since his was there first, I have no idea how anyone might go about phoning me.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
