telephone

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

The Kremlin said the three leaders had "agreed to continue maintaining direct contact by telephone".

From Barron's ● 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

Western Electric’s clear-cased Model 302 telephone enticed gawkers with an impressively complex system of wires and mechanisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

My mother’s creamy embossed stationery sits next to the telephone.

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

"Do you know about the goddess phones?" she asked, sitting down in what she called her "throne" next to a collection of bejewelled old-fashioned telephones.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

But it was clear the innovation wouldn’t necessarily be limited to telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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

There were two telephones in the house—one in the room her father used as an office, another in the kitchen.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

And in 2013, Petrini said he was "surprised" when Pope Francis telephoned him after he had sent him a book and a letter.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

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

“I’ll post his father a check in the morning. He telephoned too. Neal Brose's father, I mean. He apologized to me, actually.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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 brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 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

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols