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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Citing recent grocery channel weakness, Suja Life dialed back its full-year guidance during the latest earnings call.

— Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Offensive coordinator Matt Nagy dialed up a shot play to Beckham early in the second quarter.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of dialed

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Branch phoned the school, though, and was told Adrianna wasn’t there, either.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 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

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Autumn Joy Stonecrop Also called autumn joy sedum, this hardy, summer- and fall-flowering perennial is known for its succulent foliage and dense clusters of tiny pink flowers.

— Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 30 Aug. 2026
The Cyberdyne Hybrid Assistive Limb, commonly called HAL, is a robotic exoskeleton designed to support patients during rehabilitation.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026

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