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Recent Examples of telephoned
Uncle Vernon had telephoned the police on more than one occasion.
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Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
An hour or so later, the Macclesfield manager, John Rooney, telephoned him.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
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.
—Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
An hour or so later, the Macclesfield manager, John Rooney, telephoned him.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
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.
—Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for telephoned
Verb
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Kayleigh Clark, an eighth grade student, dialed 911, and Destiny Cornelius, also an eighth grader, gave Taylor her medicine.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Still, some of the hoopla was dialed down, though a series of projections on the wall that described ties to the First Amendment were underscored by the events of the evening.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2026
Verb
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As Day 2’s first few picks were phoned in, reports trickled out that the Lions were interested in an edge rusher.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Also, up until about the 1970s or 1980s, newspapers employed reporters who gathered news and phoned it in to a rewrite person, so many stories would have needed a double byline.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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These festivities are called Passion plays.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Disturbed gravesite reported Deputies were called to Davis Memorial Gardens in Lufkin after a report of a disturbed gravesite, the sheriff's office said in a social media post.—
Doug Myers,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Telephoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoned. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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