telephone book
noun
: a book listing the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of telephone customers
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Years before her success in tech, Kinjil Mathur spent her summers as a college student skimming telephone books to find the contacts of businesses and professionals in her city.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
The shrine is about the size of a telephone book, Mullarkey adds.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
Carolyn Bennett remembers flipping through a yellow telephone book in the 1980s to find carpet stores and workers who refinished wood to help renovate her home.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
For me, really great actors can have chemistry with a telephone book.
—EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Thereafter he was regularly seen on British TV screens tossing cabers, dragging lorries and ripping apart telephone books.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Different news reporters in the Dayton, Ohio, area reported that Ouma's grandfather, Loren Berry, was the founder of the Yellow Pages telephone books.
—Annie Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
Like pages torn from old telephone books— all of the names swallowed up by the cold.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
The easiest pressing method calls for absorbent paper and heavy books (like an old telephone book).
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
The shrine is about the size of a telephone book, Mullarkey adds.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2025
Carolyn Bennett remembers flipping through a yellow telephone book in the 1980s to find carpet stores and workers who refinished wood to help renovate her home.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
For me, really great actors can have chemistry with a telephone book.
—EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Thereafter he was regularly seen on British TV screens tossing cabers, dragging lorries and ripping apart telephone books.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Different news reporters in the Dayton, Ohio, area reported that Ouma's grandfather, Loren Berry, was the founder of the Yellow Pages telephone books.
—Annie Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2024
Like pages torn from old telephone books— all of the names swallowed up by the cold.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
The easiest pressing method calls for absorbent paper and heavy books (like an old telephone book).
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
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“Telephone book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telephone%20book. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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