telephone

There is a lot of misinformation out there, and a lot of people are just running with it, kind of like a case of broken telephone.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

California law requires AT&T, the largest carrier of last resort in the state, to offer basic telephone service to anyone who asks for it in certain areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The conditions go on to state: "If, of course, you feel a child or young person is in serious danger of immediate harm, you should call the emergency police telephone number, 999."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

As a teenager, he interned for Comcast, spending high school and college summers climbing telephone poles and selling cable subscriptions door to door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

So far, the French platform has not monetised carpooling in India, where people pay each other directly, often using the popular digital UPI mobile telephones payment systems.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

You may think you are a book publisher or a soap maker or a dealer in vintage telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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

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

She doesn’t mean to be cruel, she doesn’t know she’s just relegated me to the dust heap along with crank telephones and whalebone stays.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Shortly after Andy Burnham telephoned a number of Keir Starmer's allies to sack them from the cabinet on Monday afternoon, John Healey received the signal to head to Number 10.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

"I just telephoned Ashley Judd, the first actress to come forward with allegations against Mr. Weinstein, and shared the news from the court," Kantor wrote in the update.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

Howard telephoned him back, reminding him that it was $100,000 or nothing.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an online advice service or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025

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

Firefighters broke through doors apartment by apartment in the search for anyone left inside and followed up by telephoning residents who remained unaccounted-for.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

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 set himself to texting and telephoning people, and he talked to everyone with an extreme gentleness Jule hadn’t known he possessed.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart