telephone directory
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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DNS acts as a kind of telephone directory for the internet, instructing machines on how to find each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Soon after his arrival, my best friend and I were circling the quarterback’s picture in the student telephone directory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
To track him down, he dialled the 75 Namjoshis he found in a telephone directory - but found no leads.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023
But in a working life that stretched from the 1940s into the new millennium, Mandel amassed enough credits as arranger, composer and musician to fill a small telephone directory.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2020
He found a telephone directory in a filling station and he wrote the name of the town on their map with a pencil.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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