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telegraph

[tel-i-graf, -grahf] / ˈtɛl ɪˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /








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Tracing its origins back to a telegraph company established in 1847, Siemens makes trains, industrial software, and medical and industrial machinery as well as electrical equipment.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Count on Warsh to explain his thinking next week, but not to telegraph future decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh told Wall Street in June to stop relying on the central bank to telegraph its every move in advance.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Eight million people showed up to see the fair, which featured Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone and Thomas Edison’s telegraph, a fitting tribute to American innovation.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

With a tight throat and chugging heart, I looked out to the audience, trying not to telegraph my panic, searching for the safe harbor of my mother’s face.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Curated by the museum’s Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer with Beatriz Cifuentes and Carina Martinez, the Biennial telegraphs its problems as soon as you walk in.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Following “the Sydney Cherkov way,” she wears a lilac blouse that telegraphs meek, demure energy.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2025

We step into a park where we once played as children and possibility telegraphs into the future and the past.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2024

In the late 19th century, they began to use call boxes, booths where they could send telegraphs or dial a station house.

From Seattle Times Nov. 19, 2023

The one who telegraphs his punch and misses with his other arm down and leaves himself open.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

It further telegraphed the kind of ideological inertia in which Juneteenth — and any other present-day discussion of slavery in America — too easily becomes mired.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

With Phillips resuming on 49, England telegraphed their plan and Phillips was happy to take on the short ball.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

Cook telegraphed the dividend plans at a conference, telling investors that Apple’s board was discussing what to do with the cash.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 21, 2026

Revenue of TWD1.13 trillion were pre-announced last week so to some extent the positive set of earnings were telegraphed.

From MarketWatch Apr. 16, 2026

Rice telegraphed Ferris, who had been waiting all day for word of the test, his anxiety rising with each hour.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Warsh made it clear he wants a more tight-lipped central bank, one that isn’t telegraphing the Fed’s plans for interest rates in advance.

From MarketWatch Jul. 26, 2026

King is a natural fit for a chairman skeptical of telegraphing the Fed’s next move, but only up to a point.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

On the weekly chart, Amazon has a history of telegraphing meaningful turns through classic candlestick patterns.

From Barron's Feb. 23, 2026

Von Scherler Mayer reveres Mary’s youth and vitality while celebrating what would be the dying gasp of an era, telegraphing the ways of Mary’s life to even the most oblivious couch potato.

From Salon Jun. 9, 2025

Within a half hour of the president's death, reporters began telegraphing the breaking news to the rest of the nation.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow




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