Thesaurus results for TELEPHONING

telephoning

verb

present participle of telephone

as in dialing

to make a telephone call to I'll try to telephone the office and make an appointment today

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For women already in the practice, that means dialing down intensity, logging responses and resisting the pressure to match a partner’s or trainer’s cold tolerance.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Refrigerators in French supermarkets are being targeted by remote hackers, who are dialing up their temperature to more than 120 degrees.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 12 Oct. 2026

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As of last week, Moore is calling offensive plays for the Cougars, and the team has also made a change at quarterback.

— Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2026
Fraschilla has been calling Big 12 basketball for a quarter-century and knows the conference landscape as well as anybody.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

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So the publicists for writers, theaters, and museums kept writing and phoning, even offering to fly her back to New York to see this or that, once or twice mentioning a free trip to Europe.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
To ensure his effectiveness and align with his routine, team officials are more judicious in phoning down to the bullpen when he could be used.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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