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phone

[fohn] / foʊn /


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“It’s about the collection having a life outside of Los Angeles while we prepare to bring everything back into the building,” Heyler said in a phone interview from Paris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"Every single day I think my phone could go and somebody somewhere is going to say 'we've found him'," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

As text messages warning of an attack on the capital were sent last week, Human Resources Minister Ahmad bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi looked up from his phone at the Riyadh Economic Forum.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Elaine Hogan, executive director of the Great Redwood Trail Agency, said it has reached out to tribes via letters, phone calls and emails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

But I delete it and turn off my phone.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

Radio waves, another form of radiation, carry information from your Wi-Fi router to your computer and from cell phones to the nearest cell tower.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

First thinking it was likely to be a light aircraft or helicopter, often seen flying around the landmark, he phoned his wife who was at their home in Lower Manhattan.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

They consulted Jack Neylan, who phoned his close friend Lewis Strauss to take the temperature of the capital.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Rob, who contacted the BBC's Money Box programme about his case, said he had been phoning Capita with increasing "desperation" as his situation dragged on.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"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

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

“And Lester Burton’s been phoning in twice a day to the switchboard,” said Ivan DeVore.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool


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