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
He stalled by reading from the Washington telephone directory and giving his colleagues his recipes for “pot-likker,” corn bread, and turnip greens.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
And then the house will be occupied by strangers, and there will be no trace that they were ever there, no house to enter, no name in the telephone directory.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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