answering machine
Example Sentences
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A telephone message left on an answering machine at Yetman’s home seeking comment was not immediately returned.
From Seattle Times
I kept the message on our answering machine for years.
From Seattle Times
"I hope you're doing OK in the heat," she had said into his answering machine that day.
From Salon
A Caltech professor won the 1992 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for theories that help explain how living things store energy, but first word of the $1.2-million award went to his answering machine.
From Los Angeles Times
When they returned about a week later, they found more than 50 threatening messages on their answering machine.
From New York Times
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