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
  • Investors have dialed back their expectations for more rate hikes this year.
    — 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.
    — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Publicists phoned assistants in panic if a name appeared in the wrong context.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The store manager called the police, who put my then ninety-two-year-old father in handcuffs and phoned my mother to fetch him.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Allen drained it to extend Charlotte’s lead to 20, and then found Dennis Schröder for a high-five as Miami called a timeout.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Later, however, a faithful replica, also called the Atlantic, was built.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 25 Oct. 2026

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“Telephoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoned. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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