telephone
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They’re the keg-shaped cylinders attached to telephone poles.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The Roaring ’20s: Driven by easy credit and an industrial build-out of new technologies like the radio and the telephone, this historic bubble peaked on Sept. 3, 1929.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
I said this over a telephone, standing in a field of sheep.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
The court was shown telephone banking and email records confirming the purchase of a coach ticket from Cardiff's Sophia Gardens to London Victoria.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
It would have been before I started my job at the telephone company.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing telephone
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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