dialed

variants or dialled
past tense of dial
as in called
to make a telephone call to dialed 911 and asked for the police

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Recent Examples of dialed On fourth-and-1 at midfield, Utah's offense dialed up a trick play as wide receiver Creed Whittemore threw deep to Dampier, and the quarterback hauled it in for a 29-yard gain. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026 Sienna Miller made a romantic case for the blurred lip, Emily Blunt embraced a wintry shade of blonde, and Kim Petras dialed up the drama with graphic liner and ice-blonde bangs. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2026 The noise is dialed up just enough without being too loud, and there’s a nice sharpness that builds along with the revs. — Stephen Edelstein, The Drive, 7 Nov. 2026 That’s easily dialed off with a slight turn of the treble dial, though. — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026 Investors have dialed back their expectations for more rate hikes this year. — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Maintaining a sense of normalcy and a human connection with her constituents has become increasingly difficult as opponents have dialed up their ire—most recently, flocking to Collins’s Maine office to loudly protest July’s ICE shooting. — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026 Curic and his team have dialed down the caricature and delivered elegance to go with the innate drama of the vehicle, which is less obviously in hock to downforce or to the cooling demands inherent with other McLarens. — Jason Barlow, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2026 Its mix of escapist fantasy and emotional substance has never felt more dialed in, nor the political relevance of staggering income inequality and meddlesome tycoons more pronounced. — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026
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Verb
  • But on November 29, 1777, a small group of Spanish settlers moved into the area to establish a civilian agricultural town, called El Pueblo de San Jose, to provide food for the missions and presidios.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Their calculations used a feature of the model called a universal scaling function, which describes how physical quantities with dimensions, such as length, change over cosmic time.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • After taking him to his house located not too far from his law office, Gordon phoned someone.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Publicists phoned assistants in panic if a name appeared in the wrong context.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
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  • So Parker telephoned the base posing as the doctor of Adams’ supposedly ailing mother and talked the young soldier’s superiors into issuing an emergency furlough.
    — Dan Kelly July 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026
  • The average taxpayer who telephoned the IRS during tax season this year spent 14 minutes on hold, the advocate reports.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 27 June 2026

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“Dialed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialed. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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