How to Use burner phone in a Sentence
burner phone
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Police back then knew the client was using a burner phone.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
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The burner phone clue Police back then knew the client was using a burner phone.
—Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
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That night, the burner phone traveled to the area of the woman’s house, according to the document.
—John Miller, CNN, 21 July 2023
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The burner phone was linked to an email account, according to court records.
—Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
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One day, Jon called Gold’s housekeeper from a burner phone.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
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Your best buy is buying a low-cost smartphone, sometimes called a burner phone.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
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The burner phone should arrive soon, Chitwood his parents.
—Danielle Paquette, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2023
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Prosecutors alleged that after each of the murders, the suspect got rid of the burner phones.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 15 July 2023
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The police claim the killer, meanwhile, used separate burner phones to contact each victim – and, in doing so, gave them their first clue.
—Samantha Wanderer, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
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Harry believes reporters used burner phone and destroyed records and that there's been a cover up of the hacking scandal.
—Staff and Wire Reports., USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
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The killer allegedly used four separate burner phones to contact the women.
—Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
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Evidence revealed the killer had used burner phones to contact victims.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 July 2023
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In theory, whoever used those burner phones also carried a regular phone that pinged the same towers at the same time.
—Robert Kolker, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
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Eventually, Hudson learned that a call was made to a burner phone before the chase, confirming his suspicion that Red was tipped off.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
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Suffolk County Police At 1:31 a.m., Waterman's phone was again contacted by the same burner phone as the day before.
—Morgan Canty, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
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The records allegedly corresponded with cell site locations for burner phones used to arrange meetings with three of the Gilgo Beach victims.
—Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 14 July 2023
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There are Russian oligarchs and business titans, strongmen, burner phones, janky bars and SROs, and dubious, shadowy figures with dirty hands.
—Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
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Prosecutors said Michel was donating the money on Low’s behalf, and later tried to lean on the straw donors with texts from burner phones to keep them from talking to investigators.
—Lindsay Whitehurst, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
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When the suspect was arrested at his home Thursday, one of the burner phones allegedly linked to the suspicious searches, was recovered, court documents said.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 15 July 2023
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But despite buying the burner phone, Jones occasionally still turned on his primary phone.
—Michelle Miller, CBS News, 6 May 2023
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Among the breaks in the case were calls made on Melissa Barthelemy’s burner phone to her family members in the days after her 2009 disappearance, according to a bail application made public Friday.
—Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 14 July 2023
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Among the breaks in the case were calls made on Melissa Barthelemy's burner phone to her family members in the days after her 2009 disappearance, according to a bail application made public Friday.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 14 July 2023
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The crew was reportedly given SIM cards and burner phones without data included, but many of them don’t have anyone’s contact information.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 May 2024
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In those communications, the burner phone connected to cell towers in West Amityville and Massapequa Park, the bail application says.
—John Miller, CNN, 21 July 2023
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Tony Buzbee, one of the attorneys defending Paxton, on the other hand, argued again that there is nothing to support impeachment, that Paxton did not use burner phones, and said the attorney general was being prosecuted in the press.
—Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
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According to the bail application, the email address was found after Google was issued a warrant seeking records or accounts associated with burner phones obtained by Heuermann.
—Adam Sabes, Fox News, 15 July 2023
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The testimony included arguments over who paid for home renovations, whether Paxton used burner phones and how his alleged extramarital affair became a strain on the office.
—Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
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