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“Presidents Putin and Trump do indeed always emphasize in their telephone conversations their readiness to hold another meeting over time, should the need arise,” Peskov told journalists on Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

This is roughly analogous to me asserting that running headfirst into a telephone pole at a full sprint will not affect my health because I do not “intend” to concuss myself.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was during a telephone consultation in June that they found out their embryos would be destroyed.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Canada doesn’t have its own telephone country code.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

But Monique was already grabbing the telephone, barking out orders.

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

"We look at all of the data we have in our telephones, CCTV, the audio. There's that wealth of documentary evidence. And of course, when you go back such a long time, witnesses pass away."

From BBC ● May 26, 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

Then C. J., Nancy, and Gene drove out to the gas station, where they parked in a cul-de-sac by the highway, near some pay telephones.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The players who were not selected were telephoned by Tuchel and told the news, beginning late on Thursday afternoon.

From BBC ● May 22, 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

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

Alvarez, disturbed by the abject misery he had heard in Lawrence’s voice—“I had never seen Ernest intimidated before,” he reflected— telephoned Nichols that same day to withdraw.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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 Department for the Economy's careers service is also operating an extended service on Thursday and Friday online or by telephoning 0300 200 7820.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2022

Firefighters broke through doors apartment by apartment in the search for anyone left inside and followed up by telephoning residents who remained unaccounted-for.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

I went along it for a while, but it got thicker and thicker, and all the time Earl probably telephoning home about where I was and getting Mother all upset again.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner