phone call
Americannoun
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an instance of initiating contact by telephone.
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a conversation carried on via telephone.
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Thompson interviews childhood friends and colleagues of Mizuhara, but the interview that will generate the greatest interest is a 90-minute phone call she had with him 16 hours before she published the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Do they prefer email or a quick phone call?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Trump reportedly shared the same justification in a phone call with NewsNation correspondent Hannah Brandt.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
There is no icon that automatically shows up on a Zoom call and no audio notification when Granola is being used on a phone call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Although I’d dodged Thomas’s weekly phone call and still hadn’t emailed him back, I didn’t know where else to turn.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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