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Time was, his departure from Anfield prompted end-of-days talk on Merseyside, with fans sobbing on radio phone-ins and rivals predicting the demise of Liverpool as a Premier League force.—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024 Of course, now there will be plenty of despairing phone-ins and painful Wyscout hours.—Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 14 July 2024 But, during a live phone-in, a caller throws doubt on Adrian’s faithfulness and her perfect life comes crashing down.—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024 Mayor Mike Coffman said before Monday’s vote that allowing live phone-in participation leaves the door open to vile content that the First Amendment does not permit the council, a government body, to curtail.—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2024 The meeting was unusual: In recent months, Putin has avoided public statements about the war and postponed his annual Russia Day phone-in show scheduled for June.—Peter Rutland, Fortune, 20 June 2023 For three years, council committees dealing with real estate development, public safety, the environment and other big-ticket issues met on Zoom and relied on phone-in public comment to conduct their business — a practice initiated as part of pandemic-era restrictions on in-person gatherings.—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2023
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