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Recent Examples of dial
Verb
Against Drake, Tech again struggled from 3 despite dialing back the attempts, making just 2 of 14.—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025 This pillow has two height options to dial in the perfect amount of neck support.—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
Almost every camera supports cropped aspect ratios via a menu setting, but Fuji actually puts a hard dial on the GFX100RF to change between them.—Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2025 The passenger compartment is roomy and well-appointed, with controls that combine physical buttons and dials with a 12.3-inch touch screen and virtual assistant.—Mark Phelan, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dial
FedEx, Nike warn on outlooks The delivery companies weighed on the Dow Jones Transport Index which is often seen as a gauge of U.S. economic health.
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John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
Transfer spending isn’t indicative of successes (wages are a much more reliable gauge), but spending as much as United have to be as bad as they are speaks to years of mismanagement.
General Brown found out he was being removed when Mr. Hegseth telephoned him at his hotel in El Paso on Friday evening, a military official said.
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Eric Schmitt,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
Not long after Ryan Holdren returned home one evening in March 2021 from his job at Cincinnati College Preparatory Academy, the school’s secretary telephoned to tell him that one of their students was on TV.
The club was candid — perhaps to a fault — regarding its extensive efforts to trade the face of the franchise, hoping to clear up payroll and roster space.
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Katie Woo,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
The chef took to social media at the time to mourn the loss of the legendary Nacho, who became the face of his own cat food line and amassed over 269,000 Instagram followers during his life in the spotlight.
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