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Recent Examples of cold call
Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 7 June 2025
Why The Phone Works In 2024 The data tells the story:
Higher Conversion Rates
According to Hubspot's 2024 Sales Trends Reports, 37% of salespeople say cold calls are the most effective form of cold outreach.
—Kaushik Tiwari, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
La Rocca had a little information to go with these cold calls, some of it gleaned from a book, Vecchio Milan, published in 1963.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Sometimes when organizers make cold calls to production assistants, their effort is received like a service organization, says Byrne-Gudding.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
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Noun
That kind of third-party validation builds the kind of credibility no cold call ever could.
—Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 7 June 2025
Why The Phone Works In 2024 The data tells the story:
Higher Conversion Rates
According to Hubspot's 2024 Sales Trends Reports, 37% of salespeople say cold calls are the most effective form of cold outreach.
—Kaushik Tiwari, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
La Rocca had a little information to go with these cold calls, some of it gleaned from a book, Vecchio Milan, published in 1963.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Sometimes when organizers make cold calls to production assistants, their effort is received like a service organization, says Byrne-Gudding.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold call
Noun
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Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org.—
Malaka Gharib,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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That night, Tarantino got a voicemail from Madsen, who backed up his decision to get rid of Tierney.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
2 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Then, when she was most deeply worried about money, Goldie telephoned.—
Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
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Someone telephoned a Saratoga resident acting as a lender, claimed the victim was approved for a loan, obtained the victim’s personal information, and convinced the victim to provide money via gift cards as a requirement to obtain the loan money.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
Noun
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The company is scheduled to hold a conference call for first-quarter results on Sept. 3 at 5 p.m. ET.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
11 Aug. 2025
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It's been in development since 2021, Harley-Davidson Chairman, President and CEO Jochen Zeitz said during a July 30 earnings conference call.—
Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
1 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Whether Timberlake intended to phone it in is a different story.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
30 July 2025
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But among the countless buzzers, puzzles, and lightning rounds, which game shows sweep the board? No need to phone a friend, EW has already rounded up the all-time greats.—
Lindsay Soll,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
Noun
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With the 2025-26 school year starting next week in some counties, Maryland’s two top education leaders had a message for local school officials: Follow state law.—
William J. Ford,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Aug. 2025
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Crow-Armstrong delivered that hopeful message after a morning meeting with Cubs manager Craig Counsell — and before a defeat that encapsulated so much of what has recently gone wrong.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Experiencing Popular Culture is like sitting down with an anachronistic piece of comedic technology — Weinbach is basically a broken radio perpetually dialing in and out of random transmissions from the recent cultural past.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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The 28-year-old actress dials her performance up in her first series regular role as Barclay.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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However, today most young people rarely call each other.—
Andrea Wigfield,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2023
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Marx himself would call DEI a classic case of ideology, a set of benign-seeming ideas that disguise the workings of the rulers, in this case empowered progressives.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
14 Feb. 2023
Noun
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Great callback to the look of the original comic strip.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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The film leans into the throwback of it all just enough, with callbacks to the original and a cameo from Elaine Hendrix, who played the iconic and villainous would-be stepmother Meredith Blake alongside Lohan in The Parent Trap.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
6 Aug. 2025
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