telephone

In addition to serving more than 5 million homes, they also provide telephone service to 1.5 million subscribers in the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

When you first step into South Hall, to your immediate right is “the bubble”—a barred enclosure fitted with chairs, a desk, a telephone, and a microwave.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

"When we've had to, we've been jumping over fences and breaking windows to save animals trapped inside" homes, she told AFP by telephone.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Companies are desperate to be the winners of a transformative technology that many have compared to the advent of the internet, the telephone, even electricity itself.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The streets were wide open, lined with telephone poles—their wires crisscrossing overhead—and narrow sidewalks sprouting fiddleneck weeds and yellow mustard.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

At the heart of Britain's coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in their circuits.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The 12-man company built structures for telephones and electrical equipment alongside train tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

The intention was that they would go to work in hospitals to support acutely ill patients but some were sent to do administration, to deliver parcels and to answer telephones, the inquiry heard.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

The lobby was empty except for a night clerk dozing in his lit booth among the key rings and the silent telephones.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

According to testimony from a former agriculture official, Menendez telephoned one day to order him to stand down in his efforts to oppose the monopoly.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Mr. Clyde telephoned the number on Constantinople Street several times and got no answer.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

She then spent a further period of time telephoning the A&E department but again could not get through, despite Frost being "significantly unwell".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

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 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

Haney works as a contact tracer for Loudoun, telephoning people who, typically unwittingly, were recently near a person whose test results for the virus came back positive.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

She refused to tell him Wednesday’s room number, and insisted on telephoning Wednesday on the house phone to let him know his guest was here.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman