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Recent Examples of telephonedSo 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
Meanwhile, Philo calmly operated Faulkner’s system as the OC dialed up plays for his former backup at Georgia Tech.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Sep. 2026
Hey, make no mistake, Cristobal has his never-look-ahead blinders on, dialed into making this about a parade of 1-0 weeks and demanding his players think like that.
After a 3-2 called third strike with two out to Conine in the ninth was overturned on the ABS review, Zeferjahn retired Otto Lopez on a flyout to right.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2026
One of the flight crew had attempted to calm the situation before that point, the witnesses said, but Lundeen allegedly called her a racial slur and started making homophobic comments.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2026