telephone
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Mr. Kensil told us to telephone him when we reached our respective sports desks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Solid-state transformers convert power to different voltages, and go largely unnoticed, attached to telephone poles everywhere.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
But the geography is more mental than physical in a work that takes place largely through telephone and video calls.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
The Roaring ’20s: Driven by easy credit and an industrial build-out of new technologies like the radio and the telephone, this historic bubble peaked on Sept. 3, 1929.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
My mind turns over this concept, picturing a caller doing what Theo did, sitting by the telephone, picking up and replacing a receiver over and over again, all through the night.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing telephone
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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