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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

He would also be allowed to meet with his family once a week and speak to his sons via telephone twice weekly, the court order stated.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

Oh, sure, she’d seemed fairly reasonable at first, except for being scared to talk on the telephone.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Pakistan has so far walked the tightrope between Iran and the US, passing messages between the two sides, hosting foreign ministers from other concerned Muslim nations and hitting the diplomatic telephones.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 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

He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

“No motorcars, very few telephones, not many electric lights. Even though it was the beginning of the twentieth century, you still very much felt the influence of the nineteenth century.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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 had an Assistant Minister in New York now; I telephoned him to take over for me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023

The Department for the Economy's careers service is also offering advice online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2023

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

In November, a day before her 97th birthday, Ruth fell in her apartment and hit her head, telephoning Judy from the floor when she could not get up.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2021

Still, the office help at Lew Pants often quit without even telephoning Mr. Gonzalez.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole