Phones
Telephones and phones are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telephones" instead the word "Phones" as a noun or a verb.
Telephones
Phones and telephones are semantically related. You can use "Phones" instead the word "Telephones" as a noun or a verb.
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Both words in one sentence
- On the other hand, telephones are less than 140 years old, and decent cell phones have only been around for less than two decades.
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The Brady Bunch: Before cell phones and iPhones, there was pay telephones.
Source: Technology Marches On -
Phones exist in the form of cell phones and old-style telephones (Red uses a payphone to call Granny early in the day, and later uses an old rotary phone when she is inside Japeth's shack, and Granny has a cell phone during the ski race).
Source: Western Animation / Hoodwinked
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