telephone box

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There is also a telephone box, used by celebrities to answer questions in an attempt to win prizes.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

“The Commonwealth has shown a remarkable ability to reinvent itself and contrive solutions at times of crisis, almost as if it’s jumping into a telephone box and coming out under different guise,” she said.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2022

The enormous red-brick power station was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect behind the familiar British red telephone box and London’s Tate Modern museum.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2017

“Doctor Who” follows a time-traveling alien known as the Doctor, who moves through different dimensions to save the universe in the Tardis, a spaceship disguised as an old-fashioned British police telephone box.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2017

They turned a corner, passing a telephone box and a bus shelter.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling