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• In Fodor’s, a mongoose voiced by Neil Gaiman calls him on the telephone.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 July 2023
• In Chapel Hill, there are signs that for now, that fight is driving more votes to Mr. Biden, and not just those on the telephone polls.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
• Western Union scoffed at the idea of buying the patent on the telephone from Alexander Graham Bell in 1876.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
• There were the friends who used to visit, but were suddenly just voices on the telephone.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• And Ridley no doubt heard what Whan had to say Wednesday, if the two have not already discussed the issue on the telephone.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• There’s Labi Siffre’s softly ecstatic voice, singing about talking on the telephone.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2023
• Navalny himself called several of them on the telephone.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2023
• It was suggested that Gary and his roommate could secretly record Catherine on the telephone.
  — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
• In the shots, the young couple were captured snuggling on a couch, hanging out and enjoying drinks at the home’s bar, relaxing in an armchair and chatting on the telephone.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2023
• According to Lee, the pair spent six weeks talking on the telephone before Anderson finally agreed to hang out.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2023
• About five weeks after Harry's death, still wondering how Harry had been infected, Sandy was talking with her aunt on the telephone.
  — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2010
• Typically, someone on the street with a clipboard or a dispassionate recorded voice on the telephone may ask, ‘Do want to take part in a clinical trial?’.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 20 Aug. 2020
• Meet people who absolutely hate talking on the telephone.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
• The collection features fun things for children and seniors to do together in person, on the telephone or via video conferencing.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
• It could be argued that someone who is on the telephone, for example, would be temporarily excused as long as the primary host was free to welcome the visitors.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
• There was an almost indescribable aura with both him and the music, a regal perch that shines through Instagram photos and brief conversations on the telephone.
  — Marcus J. Moore, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2022
• She has not been allowed to speak with anyone on the telephone or have visitors outside of her medical team, social workers, and her previous lawyer, Reddington said.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
• Booth’s descriptions of Bell’s passionate courtship of his student Mabel Hubbard, who belonged to a much higher social class, are as stirring as a romance novel, and her narrative of his work on the telephone reads like a thriller.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• An Indian American engineer says he was fired last year from his long-time job with a Huntsville missile defense contractor after he was heard speaking Hindi on the telephone.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 31 July 2023
• Discussions that previously took place at conferences, on the telephone or in revision notes on manuscripts moved to social media platforms such as Twitter, review sites such as PubPeer and all-hours Zoom rooms.
  — Joseph Bak-Coleman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• As Gomez’s condition worsened, Cuahquentzi — who is staying with her mother in Tlaxcala until the immigration matter is settled — spent her days on the telephone speaking with his friends and nurses to understand the situation.
  — Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• Murphy completed a casting application online and then spoke with a casting representative on the telephone and submitted videos to get the audition.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2021
• The National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the agency, found that delays in processing paper returns have been running six months to one year, and taxpayers are experiencing longer wait times on the telephone.
  — CBS News, 22 June 2022

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024