telephoned

past tense of telephone
as in dialed
to make a telephone call to I'll try to telephone the office and make an appointment today

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Recent Examples of telephoned 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 Albert telephoned Breen right after. Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 29 May 2026 Uncle Vernon had telephoned the police on more than one occasion. Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 At around lunchtime, the editor of the East African Standard telephoned the princess's secretary, Martin Charteris at the Outspan Hotel, which serves as a base for visiting Treetops, to ask if reports of King George VI's death were true. Hope Coke, Vanity Fair, 7 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for telephoned
Verb
  • Social scientists also do not fully understand how that sense of threat can be dialed down, not just in a lab experiment but also in Christians’ experiences.
    Paul Djupe, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026
  • No part of the field was off-limits last season, but Mestemaker was especially dialed in on pass attempts over the middle.
    Dane Brugler, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Branch phoned the school, though, and was told Adrianna wasn’t there, either.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The relationship between the woman who phoned authorities and Freitag was redacted from the affidavit before it was released publicly.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Police reinforcements were called late Saturday to the temporary accommodation center for asylum seekers in Sintiki, a few kilometers (miles) from the Bulgarian border, after migrants threw rocks at guards, according to police.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
  • However, the displays produced artifact images called burn-in and the brightness of the OLED displays degraded quickly when the displays were operated at high brightness levels when used in the daytime.
    John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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“Telephoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoned. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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