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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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As she played a game of telephone with the clinics, Vanessa ran into a complexity inherent to contraceptive research and development, itself a direly underfunded field.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Their control of telecommunication equipment from San’a allows them to intercept communications through Yemeni telephone numbers, engage in telephone hacking and read and copy messages, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

"She was sounding fairly healthy," her son, Kim Aris, told AFP after the telephone conversation, which he said was the first time he had spoken to his mother in more than five years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Daily Mail published articles that included photographs of the defendant, including one showing him "reclining on a sunbed using his mobile telephone".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Take a deep breath and explain how you are on the telephone with me right now.”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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 U.S. government broke up AT&T in 1982 because a company owning phone lines and telephones was anticompetitive.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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

“They’ve got telephones in South America, don’t they?”

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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

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

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

After learning about this sad history I again telephoned Francis Black.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

I went along it for a while, but it got thicker and thicker, and all the time Earl probably telephoning home about where I was and getting Mother all upset again.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner


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