How to Use telemarketing in a Sentence

telemarketing

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  • But Jones said the telemarketing calls put her in no mood to trust such a compromise.
    — Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Now, he has been sentenced to prison for his role in an $8 million telemarketing fraud scheme.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Soon Shah was in handcuffs, a suspect in a telemarketing fraud case.
    — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 June 2021
  • Patrick worked as a painters’ helper and in telemarketing and then someone suggested he do something to give back.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 28 June 2019
  • That's because of a telemarketing lawsuit brought against the satellite TV provider.
    — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2018
  • This is massive telemarketing-fraud-scheme money, which has already proven to be a bad idea.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2021
  • That's one of the reasons why this film about a man who adopts a white voice to find success at his telemarketing job reminds us of the 1999 eccentric classic.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2018
  • Ahead of Shah's arrest for wire fraud, Garcia worked for her and claimed that during this time, Shah told Garcia about her telemarketing scheme.
    — Cady Lang, TIME, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Tushar had hired Lindsay and Charters after one of them had made a telemarketing call to one of Tushar's associates.
    — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Dutchess worked on the case of Kyle Kimoto, the Las Vegas man who had served 12 years of a 29-year sentence for a telemarketing scheme selling fake credit cards.
    — Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • Brady is also banned from telemarketing as part of the settlement.
    — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Do Not Call registry, which allows consumers to opt out of telemarketing calls and text messages.
    — Alex Ford, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Google has said that the technology won’t be used for telemarketing.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Rather than drop out, Travis moved in with Jason—then the Bearcats’ all-conference left guard—and slept on the floor while toiling at a miserable telemarketing gig.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • At the time of the shooting, Timothy was working at a telemarketing center.
    — Timothy Williams, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
  • The court case had to do with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a 1991 law that bars abusive telemarketing practices.
    — CBS News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Lakeith Stanfield stars as a man who climbs the ladder of a telemarketing company only to find true horrors on the top floors.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2021
  • At RegalView, a low-level telemarketing firm in Oakland, one path to success presents itself in the form of code-switching.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 7 July 2018
  • Before being sent to prison, Mr. Green, who ran a telemarketing business, had lived with his wives in a trailer compound in the Utah desert near the Nevada border.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • This type of telemarketing call is repeated across the country.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The terms of the release include prohibiting the pair from engaging in telemarketing while their case is pending.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Simply Money suggests some ways to curb telemarketing calls on your cell phone.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The agents recruited new agents and clients through social media and telemarketing.
    — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Thanks to the wealth of modern tools for small businesses, telemarketing is no longer reserved for big players only.
    — Dimitri Akhrin, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The latest report noted that scam and telemarketing calls accounted for about 60% of last month's robocall volume -- a trend in line with past months.
    — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 4 Mar. 2021
  • In 2021, Jen and one of her assistants, Stuart Smith, were arrested in Utah for running a telemarketing fraud scheme.
    — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The pair may also face an additional penalty of 10 years for the use of telemarketing to target people over 55 as a means to commit healthcare fraud.
    — Alison Medley, Chron, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Which is more valuable, spending our days making telemarketing calls or joining a World of Warcraft guild?
    — Livia Gershon, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • Around that time, she was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a telemarketing scheme.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Direct fund-raising—such as telemarketing and TV commercials—was expected to bring in about twenty-seven million dollars.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023

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