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The phrase "admitted the phone" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express that someone acknowledged or accepted possession of a phone, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "After searching for hours, she finally admitted the phone was in her bag all along."
Alternatives: "acknowledged the phone" or "accepted the phone."
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Steve Jobs, Apple's late co-founder, admitted the phone dropped slightly more calls than previous models and offered customers free cases to solve the problem.
Jones admitted the phone call he made to the 28-year-old Cipriani had been one of a number of "difficult" conversations.
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He coyly admitted that the phone was in his pocket, but shook his head when asked to show it off.
Evan Goldberg, executive producer of the comedy Knocked Up, admitted over the phone that he couldn't remember who the baby was in the movie's birth scene.
"I'm having a lot of bad luck healthwise," he admitted on the phone in his sonorous voice, a voice that made me want to keep listening, no body to get in the way.
Appearing at Manhattan criminal court, Campbell admitted throwing the phone in her Park Avenue apartment but said she had not intended it to hit Ana Scolavino, who later needed four stitches.
As one caller admitted: "On the phone, I feel that I don't actually say what I should say and agree to nearly everything because I don't know how to … handle what's being asked and so I do get confused".
(Rico Love, in a phone interview, admitted the nod was intentional: "I always thought Chili and Usher were a great couple, so I did that to spark something").
A Blue Peter presenter between 1997 and 2008, she had to deliver an apology to viewers after the BBC admitted the programme had faked a phone competition.
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