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Recent Examples of telephoned
At around lunchtime, the editor of the East African Standard telephoned the princess's secretary, Martin Charteris at the Outspan Hotel, which serves as a base for visiting Treetops, to ask if reports of King George VI's death were true.
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Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
At 16, he was telephoned by Arsenal’s academy director Andries Jonker with an invitation to appear in a one-off trial match, where Ballard shone.
—Michael Walker, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
At 16, he was telephoned by Arsenal’s academy director Andries Jonker with an invitation to appear in a one-off trial match, where Ballard shone.
—Michael Walker, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for telephoned
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A little more than a week before the 2026 Winter Olympics were set to begin, Annika and Niklas Malacinski dialed into a Zoom call from their World Cup event in Austria.—
Dana ONeil,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Consumption peaked across the region and the energy grid underwent an extreme weather stress test as homes and businesses dialed up thermostats against historic cold.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2026
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Bad dialogue, phoned in performances and a bafflingly amateurish script make this an easy skip on Netflix.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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In the Sunday storm this week, Wu phoned it in – literally.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a non-profit research organization, has tracked nihilistic attacks across the globe, including stabbings in Sweden by teenagers associated with a group called No Lives Matter, and the killing of three girls in northern England.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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While Streeting was on-message with the rest of the Cabinet in supporting Starmer after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for the prime minister to resign, the secretary reportedly spoke with Sarwar in the days leading up to the call for Starmer to resign.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Telephoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoned. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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