phone

as in to dial
to make a telephone call to she phoned her friend to invite her over for dinner

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Recent Examples on the Web This week alone, the first lady has traveled to three states, launched a new military outreach program, and phoned into a press call to defend the president’s viability against former President Donald Trump. Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 July 2024 With an agreement finally within reach, Biden phoned one of his counterparts, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golog, to work out the final pieces of a deal that would set the prisoners free. Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024 Perhaps a Dutch Nazi, acting on ideology or a simple desire for financial profit, relayed critical information to German authorities in Amsterdam; perhaps an anonymous caller phoned the police out of a misguided sense of obligation to obey the law and report wrongdoing. TIME, 2 Aug. 2024 Bamber had phoned the police half an hour earlier to report a panicked call from his father. Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for phone 

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“Phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phone. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.

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