telephone
noun
an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Of course, it is possible that Dad will have telephoned to town inquiring about us.
From The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Shirley Willing to the Rescue by Carolyn Judson Burnett