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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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The exercise covered 298 interactions across branches and by telephone, and rated 28% of cases as good or very good, 38% as fair, 20% as poor and 14% as very poor.

From BBC Jul. 6, 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 kids are going to school because they can pay for the school fees. They can pay for medical bills in the hospital and buy medicine," she told AFP in a telephone interview.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

Eight million people showed up to see the fair, which featured Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone and Thomas Edison’s telegraph, a fitting tribute to American innovation.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

I wish you had a telephone, even to hear your voices for a moment, but a letter will also make me happy.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

By the early 20th century, typewriters and telephones were standard office equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

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

After the stock market started roaring in the 1920s, however, it minted hundreds of new millionaires, while sales of cars, telephones, radios and appliances boomed.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2025

“No motorcars, very few telephones, not many electric lights. Even though it was the beginning of the twentieth century, you still very much felt the influence of the nineteenth century.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

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

"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

When it was ready in a readable rough draft, I telephoned him.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

In her book, Harris recounts the hours after Biden’s sudden withdrawal, when she began telephoning top Democrats around the country to lock in their support.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 28, 2025

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

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

I thought about telephoning her and calling it off, making some excuse.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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