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“We’ve known for weeks they were coming, they even said they knew where the police were located,” he said in a telephone interview from the airport as he was returning to Haiti from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The three-bench court added in its order that Khan would be allowed to meet with his family once a week and speak to his sons via telephone twice weekly.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

In addition to serving more than 5 million homes, they also provide telephone service to 1.5 million subscribers in the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

When you first step into South Hall, to your immediate right is “the bubble”—a barred enclosure fitted with chairs, a desk, a telephone, and a microwave.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

What if instead of coming in 201st in the telephone operator exam I had come in 202nd?

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

When the fire alerts sounded on telephones, "I thought everything was going to burn, the house and everything," she said at the sports hall, where they sat dozing and eating snacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

"Do you know about the goddess phones?" she asked, sitting down in what she called her "throne" next to a collection of bejewelled old-fashioned telephones.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

By one count, there were 88,000 telephones in service in the Financial District in 1920.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

“If she telephones, I’ll have her call you at Sals,” he said.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

Authorities have also said police went door-to-door or telephoned residents with instructions on how to shelter or evacuate safely.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

She telephoned famous anthropologist Louis Leakey out of the blue just hoping for some advice.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

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’m sure I offered some help or assistance with the animal situation at Reston,” he recalled, when I telephoned him.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

She then spent a further period of time telephoning the A&E department but again could not get through, despite Frost being "significantly unwell".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

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 Associated Press began telephoning the Monterey Park police and fire departments and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shortly before the RMG News alert, and kept calling for nearly three hours.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 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

She refused to tell him Wednesday’s room number, and insisted on telephoning Wednesday on the house phone to let him know his guest was here.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman