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Material support can run from money or weapons to lodging, false papers, or even a phone card.
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Ryan Lucas, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
Other details flicker briefly into the foreground: her history of drug use, the waning account balance on her phone card.
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Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
The clerk told a deputy sheriff that Williams regularly came into the Sunoco to buy prepaid phone cards, and said Williams came in again on January 19.
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Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
One of those local spots is at JHC Wireless, a Chinatown phone card seller operating behind a tiny counter in the hallway of an East Broadway arcade, which joined the network in 2019.
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Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 30 Dec. 2022
For years, John Susoeff walked from his home two blocks to the Walgreens at Bush and Larkin streets - to pick up prescriptions for him and less mobile neighbors, to get a new phone card and to snag senior discounts the first Tuesday of the month.
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Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
Some imposters demand immediate payment only with a prepaid phone card or wire transfer.
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David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
Along with his job at the IRS, Zilevu ran his own phone card company called MacroTele.
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Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
The phone card saved you money, not time, requiring the input of a long account number, followed by an equally long password, and a no less extensive foreign phone number.
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Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1981, in the meaning defined above
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“Phone card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phone%20card. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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