phoned

verb

past tense of phone
as in dialed
to make a telephone call to she phoned her friend to invite her over for dinner

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Recent Examples of phoned Anonymous tips can be phoned in to Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County at 817-469-8477. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2026 Kamel allegedly phoned Netanyahu just days before 7 October, adding to warnings from the previous month, when he is said to have flown to Israel to inform security officials in person that Hamas was planning a major assault, claimed the paper. — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2026 Some of it was done together, and sometimes people phoned it in, and that’s where production chops came in. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026 Anonymous tips can be phoned in to Crime Stoppers by calling 817-469-8477. — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026 The president phoned the co-founder of the chipmaker on Monday during an interview Huang was having for a podcast. — Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026 Amid searing personal grief, survivors describe a grandfather juggling sorrow and his traumatized granddaughter, and a second-grade teacher who phoned parents to save pupils before dying with eight children in a prayer room. — Amir Vahdat, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The relationship between the woman who phoned authorities and Freitag was redacted from the affidavit before it was released publicly. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for phoned
  1. dialed
  2. called
  3. telephoned
Verb
  • Defensive coordinator Corey Batoon dialed up more blitzes and two-high safety coverages in the second half, switching from a first-half strategy that was full of single-high and some three-man rushes.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For the first twenty minutes, Payton’s script was dialed to perfection.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of dialed
Verb
  • In 1921, a small Japanese company called Shimano began making bicycle freewheels in Osaka.
    — Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • There are also plans afoot by the French defense procurement agency (DGA) called SNA3G, which are preliminary plans for an eventual replacement of the Suffren-class in the future.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of called
Verb
  • 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
Definition of telephoned

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“Phoned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phoned. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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