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Recent Examples of cold call
Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
Starting with cold calls to sell diamonds, Moshe soon found his true calling in luxury watches.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
Michael Kupka also received a cold call from a local moving company, Call My Mover.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
His Toby Oxman may lack self-awareness, but there’s a wealth of understanding in the performance, which begins with a symphony of exquisite awkwardness: a cold call Toby makes to an old classmate, blathering candidly over the phone about his own failures.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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His appearance comes thanks to a cold call from a producer on the film.
—Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2024
Starting with cold calls to sell diamonds, Moshe soon found his true calling in luxury watches.
—Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024
Michael Kupka also received a cold call from a local moving company, Call My Mover.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
His Toby Oxman may lack self-awareness, but there’s a wealth of understanding in the performance, which begins with a symphony of exquisite awkwardness: a cold call Toby makes to an old classmate, blathering candidly over the phone about his own failures.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold call
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As Claude leaves a weirdly nonspecific voicemail for Valentina in the next room (another classic blunder), Roselyn scoops some cyanide-containing silver polish out of its container on his desk and stirs it briskly into his tea.Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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As a sales representative for a legal software company, Tony De Leon used to spend hours cold calling prospects only to get their voicemails.Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Anyone with information is asked to telephone the sheriff’s department at (323) 890-5500.Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
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Gale Kiplinger recalled his big brother telephoning him close to midnight, saying Dewy would lose.Rob Wells / Made by History, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
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Like other restaurant chains, Burger King saw consumer spending weaken over the summer, Kobza said during the company’s earnings conference call.Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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The issue was revisited in early October during a conference call between a social worker, members of the VA’s Homeless Patient Aligned Care Teams and representatives of the VASH program.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Grant phoned his wife Clarissa, who soon arrived with their youngest son Callahan, 4.Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2024
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The caller who phoned at 7:03 p.m. March 29 indicated there was suspicious activity on Roberson's accounts, according to legal documents filed by Wagner in the case.Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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As for texts, almost all messages sent between iPhones should be encrypted end-to-end by Apple’s iMessage system, and Google’s implementation of the RCS standard has brought end-to-end encryption to most Android-to-Android messaging.Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 16 Nov. 2024
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Some of the people who had sent messages then started calling my brother’s phone.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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But as the city dialed back its resources for migrants, Beck was left to catch those who fell through the gaps — both newcomers and the unhoused.Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024
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And that means a chance to dial back on that anxiety by dialing back on your media consumption.Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Their children’s schoolmates call the sisters the Puffling Queens.Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
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Congress might also call on President Biden to ban TikTok under the IEEPA.Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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Okay, some of that was definitely about the raging diarrhea his SLS gave her (many thanks for the SLS callback in this episode, by the way), but the rest of it was the jealousy and fear that her best friend would abandon her.Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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Even the documentary’s name is a callback, an echo designed to reiterate that we might be done with the past, but the past is never done with us.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Cold call.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20call. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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