- a variation of cell phone.
cellphone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Detectives obtained search warrants for Harvey’s cellphone and his iCloud account, gaining access to his call records, notes, photographs, text messages and other data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He lives without a cellphone in a hyper-connected nation of 213 million people that is flooded with disinformation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Shanahan was holding and using a cellphone at the time of the crash but was not at fault, according to the California Crash Reporting System, a statewide database of collisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The company hopes that its case could get a boost from a recent Supreme Court decision regarding the hurdles police need to clear to search cellphone location data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Her cellphone battery was dying, and she needed to get inside, to somewhere that had electrical outlets and objects moving faster than me and Julia.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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