telephone
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Jeanne de Montagnac, 29, stood by her husband and two-year-old daughter, perched on his shoulders with a telephone number scribbled in biro pen on her arm.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
“I’m so proud, so proud with what we achieved last Sunday,” Ms. Machado told me by telephone from Caracas days after that election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
This is roughly analogous to me asserting that running headfirst into a telephone pole at a full sprint will not affect my health because I do not “intend” to concuss myself.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The following day, the girls exchanged telephone numbers and addresses and promised to keep in touch.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Theo crosses off the names with no telephone numbers and then chews his pencil.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
When the fire alerts sounded on telephones, "I thought everything was going to burn, the house and everything," she said at the sports hall, where they sat dozing and eating snacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Pakistan has so far walked the tightrope between Iran and the US, passing messages between the two sides, hosting foreign ministers from other concerned Muslim nations and hitting the diplomatic telephones.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
The U.S. government broke up AT&T in 1982 because a company owning phone lines and telephones was anticompetitive.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025
By one count, there were 88,000 telephones in service in the Financial District in 1920.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025
Electric power and telephones went out with the first blast, as we knew they must.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
She telephoned famous anthropologist Louis Leakey out of the blue just hoping for some advice.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025
Kawther describes an agonising wait on the day the children were due to arrive until finally Unicef telephoned.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
At some point in the ’70s or ’80s, Kauffman said, his brother telephoned him for a brief chat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
When it was ready in a readable rough draft, I telephoned him.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
One of them, a tax attorney named Gordon, was coaxed onto stage for the purpose of publicly telephoning his wife.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
The Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an extended service on Thursday and Friday online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022
In November, a day before her 97th birthday, Ruth fell in her apartment and hit her head, telephoning Judy from the floor when she could not get up.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2021
She also did a great deal of telephoning and visited every bookshop in the town.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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