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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
Investors have dialed back their expectations for more rate hikes this year.
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New York Times,
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.