phone book
noun
: a book that lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the people and businesses in a certain area
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While living on his mom’s couch, a casting director called after looking his name up in a phone book.
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Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
At one point, a Newsweek journalist more or less just looked in the phone book for Nakamotos.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
Ditko’s name was on the door, and his phone number was in the phone book.
—Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
Sure enough, in an old 1976 New York City phone book, a Vincent McNally was listed with an address on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.
—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 16 June 2024
By corrupting the phone book, such attacks put the basic stability of the Internet at risk.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
That last panel shows her phone book, with, for some reason, my name in it.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
The only book not adapted to the screen is the phone book.
—New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
Others play it artfully straight, like prayers or the phone book.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
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Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
At one point, a Newsweek journalist more or less just looked in the phone book for Nakamotos.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2024
Ditko’s name was on the door, and his phone number was in the phone book.
—Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
Sure enough, in an old 1976 New York City phone book, a Vincent McNally was listed with an address on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village.
—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 16 June 2024
By corrupting the phone book, such attacks put the basic stability of the Internet at risk.
—Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
That last panel shows her phone book, with, for some reason, my name in it.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
The only book not adapted to the screen is the phone book.
—New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
Others play it artfully straight, like prayers or the phone book.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
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“Phone book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20book. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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