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Recent Examples of dial
Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The gadget sits on four slender, angled legs with its dials and classic, brown shell beckoning viewers toward its warm, bright stories.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
If natural sleep is attained by carefully dialing down our consciousness across several different parameters, anesthesia involves a more aggressive turn of these dials.
—Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
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Verb
In case of an emergency, dial 911.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The gadget sits on four slender, angled legs with its dials and classic, brown shell beckoning viewers toward its warm, bright stories.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
The possibilities are still growing, which is why Carrafiell says he's dialed into the data like never before.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
If natural sleep is attained by carefully dialing down our consciousness across several different parameters, anesthesia involves a more aggressive turn of these dials.
—Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dial
Verb
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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
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Representatives for James have called the fraud claims made against her politically motivated and false.—
Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From the San Luis Valley in Colorado to below Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico, the compact called for gages to monitor the river, ensuring downstream obligations were met.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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At 11 feet, The railroad bridge about three quarters of a mile upstream from the gage can restrict the flow.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The film is manually wound through the camera via hand knobs at either side, with a frame counter keeping track of how many exposures have been taken.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
2 Sep. 2025
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Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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Social media has never been a fair gauge of how a wider fanbase feels about anything.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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There's a simple digital gauge cluster for the driver, framed on either side by what the brand's calling Quattro flaps.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Also, treat operational maintenance as a growth lever, not as tech debt, because speed is achieved when reliability is baked into the process, not bolted on.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Two young women stood in front, plopped two tokens into a metal belt, pressed a lever, and watched as a credit-card-sized piece of cardboard slid out.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 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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Not knowing much about the condition, Mares-Sedillo worried that her face would be permanently altered.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Travis Kelce got right in Jawaan Taylor's face after his second false start of the game.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Dial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dial. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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