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Blinken was telephoning world leaders in an effort to decide on a course of action, a State Department spokesman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2023

President Barack Obama was telephoning lawmakers Monday as he presses for passage of the treaty before Congress adjourns, according to deputy press secretary Bill Burton.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2010

S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State's head caused him hastily to withdraw.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Miss Hokinson's own favorite cartoon, her heroine was telephoning home from the police station with a contrite bulletin: "Albert, I did something wrong on the George Washington Bridge."

From Time Magazine Archive

While Erlcort was telephoning she was talking to him.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean