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telephone

[tel-uh-fohn] / ˈtɛl əˌfoʊn /


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Inside the box is an old rotary telephone.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 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

"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

“So, is your plan to look for a public telephone at the train station and see if they have a Polk’s there?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

As she leaves the clinic she telephones her family.

From BBC Apr. 18, 2025

He was downrange with one of the old mine telephones O’Dell and Roy Lee had acquired from the mule barn and for which, I remembered, we still owed Mr. Van Dyke.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

O2 Virgin Media confirmed the scammer telephoned its call centre requesting a new sim and had hacked Stephen's emails.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2025

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 gave the fellow a half-hour to get there, and then I telephoned.

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

One of them, a tax attorney named Gordon, was coaxed onto stage for the purpose of publicly telephoning his wife.

From Washington Post Apr. 24, 2023

The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.

From New York Times Feb. 26, 2023

That much he had learned by telephoning the Reverend Mr. Post, who further discouraged him by declining to reveal his former clerk’s exact destination.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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