phone book
Americannoun
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phone books
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of phone book
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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An image from a prior Epstein files release showed a different, but similar email - [email protected] - listed in Epstein's phone book under a contact titled "Duke of York".
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
I wouldn’t pay to hear her read the proverbial phone book, but I might shell out to hear her sing it, while cracking jokes in between vocalizing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
A week later, L.A. printed its first phone book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
They were all looking for a man named Steven Reisner, whom they had been dating; somehow, none of them had ever gotten his phone number, so they had found me in the phone book.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
So I invented a Black Box Yellow Pages, which is a phone book that’s made out of the material that they make the black boxes on airplanes out of.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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