as in dialing
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 Synonyms for telephoning
Verb
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The man has built his reputation on dialing up great plays.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026 -
The names alone should give an accurate indication of the unrelenting level of quirk, with everyone dialing up the eccentricities to 11.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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His prosecution has sparked outrage on social media and prompted several petitions calling for the charges against him to be dropped, including one signed by more than 380,000 people.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
1 Mar. 2026
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Men and women stepped onto their balconies, watching the crowd stream past—not an unusual sight there since liberation, except that now there were no tri-star revolutionary flags, no banners calling for freedom.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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MacPhail was phoning to let Klein know that the Twins were adding him to their 40-man roster ahead of the deadline to protect players from the Rule 5 Draft.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
24 Feb. 2026
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In a 2020 interview with the FBI, the mother recalled phoning Interlochen to inquire about Epstein.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Telephoning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telephoning. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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