teleconference
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of teleconference
First recorded in 1950–55; tele- 1 + conference
Example Sentences
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Middle Eastern CEOs, who had expected to speak in-person at the conference, beamed in via teleconference.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
In 2019, the city-state fined a Singaporean activist for holding an online forum several years prior that featured prominent activist Joshua Wong speaking in a teleconference call.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
“I have been a fan of Sally since I was a little kid,” the filmmaker says on a teleconference call alongside Ride’s longtime partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
The WHO said Chinese health officials on Thursday provided the data it requested during a teleconference.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
NASA's engineers debated the computer problem in a cross-country teleconference.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
Last Monday, 28 years after their last courtroom appearance, the brothers teleconferenced into a hearing from prison, during which their aunt pleaded for their release.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
He teleconferenced in to a California media event.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
She participated in one teleconferenced hearing in May from her hospital bed.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
Inside what they were calling “the Chelsea Manning room,” on the eve of Edward Snowden’s teleconferenced keynote from his forced asylum in Russia, Nowosielski began his speech with the words, “World, meet Alfreda Bikowsky.”
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2018
He got Mrs. Vitale onto her feet, examined her, took her vital signs, called her daughter and teleconferenced with a doctor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016
But for me, it’s been an immense comfort to go into video chats knowing that a stuffy corporate teleconferencing utility that’s worth billions of dollars has inadvertently armed me with a superpower.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2022
More than two decades before companies like Skype helped make two-way video calls part of everyday life, Jenkins had improvised his own teleconferencing system and used it to make art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
It’s also a great teleconferencing device thanks to its far-field studio microphones and 5MP front-facing camera.
From The Verge ● Mar. 17, 2022
Researchers are still investigating whether patients using the virtual services fare as well as they do with in-person care, although one review of clinical trials using video teleconferencing found largely similar results.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
On one end was a massive wall-size screen and overhead there were cameras in the ceiling for teleconferencing.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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