telephone directory
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
"I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - I could have shot the telephone directory with those two," he recalls.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024
Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2024
He stalled by reading from the Washington telephone directory and giving his colleagues his recipes for “pot-likker,” corn bread, and turnip greens.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
He found a telephone directory in a filling station and he wrote the name of the town on their map with a pencil.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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