telephone
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Emergency alerts were sent by telephone to residents of the districts because of the fire and several arterial roads were cut off, the Civil Guard said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Our internet is not stable the way the old copper landline telephone is.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The exercise covered 298 interactions across branches and by telephone, and rated 28% of cases as good or very good, 38% as fair, 20% as poor and 14% as very poor.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
As a teenager, he interned for Comcast, spending high school and college summers climbing telephone poles and selling cable subscriptions door to door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Dannenbergs’ listing doesn’t have a telephone number affiliated with it.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"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
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
You may think you are a book publisher or a soap maker or a dealer in vintage telephones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
On a table in the center of one end of the barn were also a number of ancient mine telephones.
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
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
She says that he telephoned her on 4 December.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
At lunchtime, Mr Trilby, the Deputy Head, telephoned her house to enquire if she was feeling unwell.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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
The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 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
I thought about telephoning her and calling it off, making some excuse.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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