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Recent Examples of cold call
Noun
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 Never trust a cold call, email, or mailed offer without confirmation. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2025 The Future of Sales Calls Returning to the value proposition of the Phone Intent Platform, what companies like TitanX are engaged in may be thought of as not some one-off gambit to find those prospects most willing to answer a cold call. Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025 That kind of third-party validation builds the kind of credibility no cold call ever could. Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for cold call
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold call
Noun
  • Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org.
    Beck Harlan, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Newsweek reached out to the company via phone call on Friday and left a voicemail.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Then, when she was most deeply worried about money, Goldie telephoned.
    Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • During a conference call with reporters earlier this week, NFL EVP of media distribution Hans Schroeder confirmed that the calendar loophole in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 that allowed for two years of late-summer Friday dates will temporarily close in 2026.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • After fluctuating in the wake of the report, the stock gained more than 3% during the conference call.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In her final hours, the girl repeatedly phoned call-center volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society, pleading for a rescue vehicle that never made it to her.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The actor and comedian Fred Armisen phoned the front desk from his room at a midtown hotel the other day, and asked the clerk to call right back.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In order to embolden and support his organization, bin Laden often videotaped himself with messages aimed at his target audience, established training centers in Afghanistan, had an expansive funding network that included wealthy individuals, couriers, mosques and other complex ways to raise funds.
    Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Inside the West Wing, staff sat in shocked silence, scrolling to see the latest updates of news on their phones and messages on their computer screens.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Facing third-and-1 from Indy’s 38-yard line, Steichen dialed up a run play in the first quarter for Warren.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • For this look, everything — eyes, cheeks, lips — is subtly dialed up.
    Karina Hoshikawa, Refinery29, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Southlake Carroll’s game against Hebron was also called official with the Dragons leading 35-7 in the third quarter.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Representatives for James have called the fraud claims made against her politically motivated and false.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite his resistance to participating in yet another documentary—and the show’s underuse of him, in what is either a callback to The Office or a failure to learn from its mistakes—Oscar ends up inventing number games.
    Judy Berman, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The boxy cut of Gomez’s mini is more timeless, a bit of a callback to the ’60s—which reminds me, isn’t Gomez supposed to star as Linda Rondstadt in a biopic?
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Cold call.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20call. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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