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
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  • Ha and Lee are also dialed in, as is Sasha Calle as Val, a con woman Sugar recruits as his assistant and protégé.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Following the jobs report, traders dialed back expectations for a rate hike at the central bank's next policy meeting in September.
    Yun Li,Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
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  • Residents living in the nearby communities of Val Verde and Castaic have phoned in thousands of complaints about stench and lived with nausea, dizziness and trouble breathing.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Between July 4 and the end of July, roughly 30,000 Americans phoned a passport call center seeking to apply for the special passport, a department spokesperson told the New York Times.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
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  • Meghan personally called animal rights attorney Shannon Keith, who runs the Beagle Freedom Project, after hearing about 4,000 beagles being rescued from overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at the Envigo breeding and research plant in Virginia.
    Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Five students between 12 and 13 years old were killed in what officials called the worst school shooting in decades.
    Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026

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“Telephoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoned. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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