crank calls
- plural of crank call.
Example Sentences
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Japanese public broadcaster NHK said thousands of crank calls from China have targeted Fukushima government offices and the nuclear plant’s operator.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Transit officials later explained that they had decided that wording was all but guaranteed to generate crank calls, since New Yorkers tend to regard one another and their possessions warily to begin with.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
You’d never catch Firth popping up on, say, a Comedy Central gag show about puppets making crank calls, but that’s exactly where you’ll catch Goldblum, who regularly appeared on “Crank Yankers.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021
He essentially crank calls the FTC’s lawyers with me in the room Monahan says he found the teen on the “backpack chats” and insinuates that the teen reached out to Monahan himself.
From The Verge ● Mar. 4, 2020
Randolph had a number of what he referred to—and reported—as "crank calls," asking Witch to try its might.
From Prologue to an Analogue by Richmond, Leigh
