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Recent Examples of dial
Verb
On his wrist, Liu wore the 40mm Day-Date with a meteorite dial in a white gold case by Rolex, a founding supporter of the Academy Museum and the gala’s sponsor.—Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025 The system ships with two wireless pads that keep the hallmark rotary dial and numeric keypad, maintaining the original design, even if thumbsticks would work a little better.—Alex Harrington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
Beginning in late June, Lai further dialed up the rhetoric.—Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025 Outside Tennessee, dial 615-254-4946.—Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dial
After getting to the ring to call for an opponent, fans received a surprise.
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Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
While reflecting on her first performance, Furtado remembered buying the pink dress from a store called Original on Queen West in Toronto, and also picking up some sparkly platform shoes for the monumental moment.
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.
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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
At 11 feet, The railroad bridge about three quarters of a mile upstream from the gage can restrict the flow.
There’s also a place for parents to phone in their personal stories from their own parenting and feeding journeys.
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Sarah Scott,
Parents,
15 Oct. 2025
Honestly a fair number of fans opted to watch the game instead of arrive early, but to their credit the Barr Brothers didn't phone it in, and used the low-stakes to test out a new song to kick off their set.
He had been assigned the last car in a row of six, each manned by a colored youth standing inside his metal box in a red uniform, operating the lever that sent the car up from the basement grill to the roof-garden restaurant on the fifteenth floor and then back down again all day.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
The defendants have pulled every procedural lever to avoid being held responsible for their egregious actions.
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