Thesaurus results for TELEPHONED

telephoned

verb

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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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

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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

Definition of phoned

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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

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