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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Mitsotakis congratulated the British director in a teleconference on Monday on the success of the movie that has renewed internatational interest in Homer's ancient epic.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 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
Both parties have been ordered to participate in a May 30 mediation teleconference to determine custody or visitation if the two fail to come up with a plan before then using online court tools.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
"We worked our entire life," one panicked retiree declared at Huizenga's most recent town hall, held via teleconference.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
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
The teleconferenced meetings were announced in news releases to the news media, who were able to call in and listen.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2020
On February 23rd, Xi teleconferenced with 170,000 local officials, describing the pandemic as the hardest public-health emergency to contain since the founding of the People's Republic.
From Salon ● May 3, 2020
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
The long fight for the Ukrainian city is backed by consumer tech — messaging apps, teleconferencing services, satellite internet terminals, cloud-synced mapping software and drones available at Amazon and Walmart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
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
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
Some of the Indian accounting firms even go about marketing themselves to American firms through teleconferencing and skip the travel.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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