telephone
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But the young women who would have become telephone operators became stenographers, administrative assistants and waitresses instead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
At one point, he said, his telephone service was turned off, forcing him use a pay phone for calls.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
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
“We must find a telephone and warn her not to come home!”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing telephone
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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