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n. (plural of answering machine English)
Usage examples of "answering machines".
She didn't like leaving a message, but people who had answering machines usually intended them to be used.
I got out my Rolodex, got on the phone, and left two messages with two answering machines.
It's better than phone answering machines, because with them, the person on the other line might actually pick up the phone and you might have to talk.
She left a message on both answering machines, and then sat down at her computer and transcribed Mr.
First, he went upstairs to check the fax and answering machines in his office.
The fashion-ability of VE games, VE dramas, and telephone VEs is already helping to move a substantial part of everyday human existence and everyday communication into a parallel dimension where artifice rules-and the cleverer the VE designers and the AI answering machines become, the more secure that reign will be.
A couple of other places I got answering machines, too, so I grabbed the church directory and started looking up older folks, the people I thought might not like answering machines and wouldn't have one.
Getting through to the government agency after-hours had been a morass of answering machines, people who were home but not on call, and people who were on call but not at home.
Most women would have cried Uncle and turned on their answering machines months ago.