telephone
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Mr. Delves Broughton includes a transcript of the actress Liza Minnelli flirting with Kissinger on a telephone call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Their responses came from telephone surveys conducted through the BRFSS.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Newly released September jobs data shows document-preparation services cut employment 17% over the year; telephone call centers and public-relations agencies each lost 4.7%; and advertising agencies shed 3.9%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
Shona Manderson told me by telephone her main feeling was relief that their voices had been heard.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
My mother’s creamy embossed stationery sits next to the telephone.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
But it was clear the innovation wouldn’t necessarily be limited to telephones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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
Electric power and telephones went out with the first blast, as we knew they must.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Shortly after Andy Burnham telephoned a number of Keir Starmer's allies to sack them from the cabinet on Monday afternoon, John Healey received the signal to head to Number 10.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Sheinbaum, who is opposed to unilateral military action on Mexican soil, quickly telephoned Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
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
Mr. Clyde telephoned the number on Constantinople Street several times and got no answer.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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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
The brothers raced up to their high-rise office and tried telephoning her.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
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
When Malcolm X reached home in Long Island, one of his followers, telephoning him there, got, instead, a telephone company operator who said that the OL 1-6320 number was “disconnected.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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