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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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Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org.—
Andee Tagle,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2026
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Users can make and receive calls, texts and voicemails.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
15 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Trump, who plans to visit Beijing next year for trade talks, telephoned Takaichi last month, urging her not to escalate the dispute, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
7 Dec. 2025
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Japanese media reported that Trump telephoned Takaichi after his call with Xi.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The new endeavor is a reminder that investors still hunger for excellent locations despite difficult times for the retail sector, Healey said during the conference call.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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One by one, Democrats stake out opposition Democratic senators were scheduled to participate in conference call Sunday evening to discuss the next steps.—
Kevin Freking,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Three characters spend the novel sadly phoning figures who never appear—in Stella’s case, her absent mother (which may explain why Bainbridge sometimes put her own mother in her story about the germination of the book).—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Kuiu posted the surveillance footage to its social media channels Wednesday and is asking anyone who might recognize the suspects to phone local police.—
Kris Millgate,
Outdoor Life,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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For investors and brands, the message is that Europe’s travel retail sector is growing, but the fundamentals are shifting.—
Kevin Rozario,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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For 80 years, the city of Loveland has been offering people the chance to give their Valentine’s messages some TLC with its Valentine re-mailing program.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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For the model’s 30th anniversary, Nike dialed in the cushioning and shape of the shoe to better match the original ’95 version.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
21 Jan. 2026
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This is not speculative hype spending that can be dialed back on a quarterly earnings call.—
Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Calò, a 46-year-old Sicilian, speaks passionately about El Popo, as Mexicans call the volcano, rattling off trivia.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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Anyone with information in the case is asked to call the CMPD Homicide Unit at 704-432-8477 (TIPS) and speak directly to a detective.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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As shared in a press release, the bee embellishment is a callback to both Georgian era jewelry as well as the aesthetic of the show.—
Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026
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If possible, silence unknown callers and block voicemail-to-email transcription for unfamiliar numbers, since many scams now start with urgent callback messages rather than links.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Cold call.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20call. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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