cellular telephone
noun
: a small telephone that people can take with them and use outside their homes : cell phone
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Identity theft: Between May 16 and May 17, someone used a Saratoga resident’s personal identifying information to open new cellular telephone lines at Xfinity and new checking accounts at Wells Fargo Bank, all under the victim’s existing accounts.
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Overall, 96 percent of respondents were reached on a cellular telephone.
—New York Times, 17 Aug. 2024
Johanna Grace, 34, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to providing marijuana and a cellular telephone to an inmate at the Waukesha County Jail.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
The country's two cellular telephone networks messaged people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic so the time would not change at midnight, although in many cases the time advanced anyway.
—Abby Sewell, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
The country’s two cellular telephone networks sent messages to people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic in order for the time not to change at midnight, although in many cases the time advanced anyway.
—Abby Sewell, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
Long, long ago, before the advent of the cellular telephone, Miss Manners declared the telephone to be a rude instrument.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Overall, 96 percent of respondents were reached on a cellular telephone.
—New York Times, 17 Aug. 2024
Johanna Grace, 34, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to providing marijuana and a cellular telephone to an inmate at the Waukesha County Jail.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
The country's two cellular telephone networks messaged people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic so the time would not change at midnight, although in many cases the time advanced anyway.
—Abby Sewell, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
The country’s two cellular telephone networks sent messages to people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic in order for the time not to change at midnight, although in many cases the time advanced anyway.
—Abby Sewell, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
Long, long ago, before the advent of the cellular telephone, Miss Manners declared the telephone to be a rude instrument.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
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“Cellular telephone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellular%20telephone. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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