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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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The few trees that had survived the fire now looked like Christmas trees planted on top of telephone poles.

From Los Angeles Times

The 12-man company built structures for telephones and electrical equipment alongside train tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal

She said she made an initial apology in a "personal" telephone conversation with the academic.

From BBC

The findings were in response to Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s request in July for an audit of the agency’s telephone customer-service times.

From MarketWatch

He told me that when he was growing up in Middletown, Ohio, his family didn’t own a car, a TV set or a telephone for much of his childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal