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noun

a set of figures identifying the telephone of a particular subscriber, and used in making connections to that telephone

(plural) extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices

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telephone book, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone directory, telephone exchange, telephone number, telephone pole, telephone receiver, telephone selling, telephone tag, telephonic

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“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.
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The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
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After my first trip to his place in Tucson we called one another on the telephone.
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
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Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
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I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
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