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Recent Examples of cold call
Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
In this day and age, receiving a cold call at any time can be disarming, but Norway’s finance minister reportedly took a most surprising ring on the streets of Oslo earlier this month.
—Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Nov. 2025
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Noun
LinkedIn has turned into cold call central and people have their guard up, rightfully so.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
In this day and age, receiving a cold call at any time can be disarming, but Norway’s finance minister reportedly took a most surprising ring on the streets of Oslo earlier this month.
—Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
That struggle led the team to cold-call shelters around the nation.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold call
Noun
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The death threats poured in, not just to my voice mail and email, but also to my department, the dean’s office and the president’s office.—
Karen J. Leader,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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Within days of Kirk’s killing, outraged messages filled her office voicemail inbox and the restaurant faced a barrage of threatening calls and online harassment.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
4 Mar. 2026
Verb
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An hour or so later, the Macclesfield manager, John Rooney, telephoned him.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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Or telephone them at 202-772-5600.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
Noun
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During Wednesday’s conference call, Tan called for one gigawatt of Google tensor processing units for Anthropic in 2026 and over three gigawatts in 2027.—
Jordan Novet,Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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During a conference call Monday with analysts, Gordon said Paramount would look beyond the workforce for cuts because the company wants to maintain its film and TV production levels.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Our one peek into it comes when Darren phones Evy to pressure her to ditch her mom and come to a party.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Thirty-five years later, US Vice President Lyndon Johnson answered the first satellite call, and in 1969 President Richard Nixon phoned Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon using AT&T’s network.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Using a special encryption code, the operatives could translate the numerals into a readable message.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Jovial Jupiter stations direct in your 3rd House of Communication, helping messages land and showering your daily exchanges with motivation and inspiration.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The unseasonable heat will linger into Friday, weaken slightly over the weekend and then dial up to scalding again next week, according to the National Weather Service.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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The generation that grew up perpetually dialed into culture can’t handle not understanding what the internet’s obsessed with.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Before experimenting with an early variation of Country Joe and the Fish alongside guitarist Barry Melton in the mid-1960s, McDonald started a small magazine called Rag Baby.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Small strokes, for example, can impair blood flow to the brain and trigger what’s called vascular dementia.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The second callback inspection got the bagel folks back in business.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The domed crystal here is a callback to vintage dive watches with luminescent Radiomir dials made for the Italian Navy; the PAM01729 offers up a bit of glow, too, with beige Super-LumiNova that shines green in the dark.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2026
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