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
"I had Judi Dench and Maggie Smith - I could have shot the telephone directory with those two," he recalls.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
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
The result was no-frills, but functional and inspiring enough to land on the cover of the telephone directory and nab design awards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2016
He remembers the astonishment of seeing pages full of Gangulis, three columns to a page, in the Calcutta telephone directory.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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