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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Middle Eastern CEOs, who had expected to speak in-person at the conference, beamed in via teleconference.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
"We worked our entire life," one panicked retiree declared at Huizenga's most recent town hall, held via teleconference.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
"The bottom line is that $11bn is too expensive, and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long," Nasa administrator Bill Nelson told reporters in a Monday teleconference.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2024
“The port of Los Angeles is off to a great start,” Seroka said Wednesday in his monthly teleconference on port operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
NASA's engineers debated the computer problem in a cross-country teleconference.
From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette
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
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
She went to work every day at 5 a.m. at a teleconferencing company and then attended community college classes.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022
More than two decades before companies like Skype helped make two-way video calls part of everyday life, Jenkins had improvised his own teleconferencing system and used it to make art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 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
On one end was a massive wall-size screen and overhead there were cameras in the ceiling for teleconferencing.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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