phone book

noun

: a book that lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the people and businesses in a certain area

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The cast includes Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Robert Pattinson — Villeneuve just opened the Hollywood phone book and started calling, sounds like. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2026 The 1200 was the first to include call-time tracking and a multiuser phone book, allowing owners who planned to lend their device to set up call limits based on time or cost. IEEE Spectrum, 13 July 2026 There was a phone book, camera film canisters, metal pins, the tattered remains of a baseball cap and an orange t-shirt with the outline of a giant thumbs up. Rylan Digiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026 My father, Aldo, opened its doors in 1984, selling salads and carpaccios at a moment when the New York dining landscape was divided, as one critic put it, between old-style red-sauce spots and fancy Frenchified salons with menus the size of a small-town phone book. Gea Bozzi, Air Mail, 16 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for phone book

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“Phone book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20book. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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