telephone
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There is a lot of misinformation out there, and a lot of people are just running with it, kind of like a case of broken telephone.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
"Fedorov is an iPhone 16, Syrskyi is a telephone from the 1980s," military analyst and former intelligence officer Ivan Stupak told me.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Inside the box is an old rotary telephone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
As a teenager, he interned for Comcast, spending high school and college summers climbing telephone poles and selling cable subscriptions door to door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
You will get through your entire shift without another telephone call; it won’t happen again.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
So far, the French platform has not monetised carpooling in India, where people pay each other directly, often using the popular digital UPI mobile telephones payment systems.
From Barron's ● May 31, 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
In the towns they talked of sewers and inside toilets, and some already had them; and arc lights on the street corners—Salinas had those—and telephones.
From "East of Eden" 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
O2 Virgin Media confirmed the scammer telephoned its call centre requesting a new sim and had hacked Stephen's emails.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 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
“The hospital telephoned me a little while ago,” he said, sounding a little out of breath.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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
The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
The Associated Press began telephoning the Monterey Park police and fire departments and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shortly before the RMG News alert, and kept calling for nearly three hours.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 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
“Mrs. Nwizu will soon stop telephoning to tell me she saw him there,” her mother said.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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