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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
telephone .
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Examples
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Officials closing all Culpeper County, Virginia, schools after receiving what they described as a telephoned threat.
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"Tauzin telephoned Valenti with his decision late Thursday night after intense salary negotiations over recent days," says the report.
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Once Klein telephoned Reuven Frank, then president of NBC News, to protest
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Once Klein telephoned Reuven Frank, then president of NBC News, to protest
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And again at Little Fish Inlet as well as Three Mile Bay, actual crowds — farmers, store-keepers, summer residents, woodsmen, children — all gathered because of word telephoned on ahead apparently.
An American Tragedy 2004
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But if Forrester had written it, he must of necessity have written it very recently, certainly _after_ he had telephoned, that is, within an hour; whereas, if it had been written by some one else and brought there, if it was forged, if it was murder and not suicide, the note must have taken long and painstaking effort to prepare beforehand.
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The victim said she went home and the man she had called telephoned her back, instructing her to go to another store to wire the money.
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Your italicized phrases are what CTV put up on its screen at the same time that its reporter, Tom Clark, obviously shifts his tone of voice to convey that the words were actual quotes from the Obama campaign person who allegedly "telephoned" the Canadian ambassador.
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On that evening before Martin's funeral Priam Jones telephoned, meaning to talk to Bon-Bon, but reaching me instead.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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At every curve and bend they 'telephoned' along the river warning signals; their huge wooden drums sounded the muster for fierce resistance; reed arrows tipped with poison were shot at us from the jungle as we glided by.
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