telegraph
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The storm also wreaked havoc on telegraph networks around the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
If a candidate rents, it may telegraph to a voter where they are on the class spectrum, what generation they’re in and the kinds of affordability challenges they’re dealing with, she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
On a summer night alongside the Colorado River, a line of telegraph poles is set alight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It’s big, too, nearly 10 miles long, and peaky, with some squat concrete buildings up at the crest of one of the hills, and a single telegraph pole.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
All around us, like crows perched on telegraph lines, sat eager observers, their eyebrows raised and their heads cocked to the side as if to hear us better.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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The song telegraphs Charli’s genre switch from electronic pop to the titular rock music, announcing, “I think the dance floor is dead” over heavily distorted guitar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
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
It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
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
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And Vail Resorts telegraphed another weak ski season with season-pass sales through Sept. 18 down 12% from a year ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Though Le Fee telegraphed his effort, Raya had to be at full stretch to tip it on to the post.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The university telegraphed Dartmouth and stated that they were forfeiting the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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
The lone holdout on the commission was Henry DeWolf Smyth, who had telegraphed his distaste for the inquiry to Ernest Lawrence at Oak Ridge.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Residents and businesses say the approach allows individuals to, in effect, evade removal by telegraphing that if they relocate across the street on the sixth day then the seven-day clock will restart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
From Nike to Meta, companies are telegraphing broad cuts in advance, leaving workers in limbo on the details.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
While Tesla has been telegraphing its plans to begin rolling out the Cybercab for rides in Austin, the full extent of its plans is still unclear.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
When the VIX peaked around 90 during the 2008-09 financial crisis, telegraphing extreme fear that the financial system might collapse, stock buyers were rewarded.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
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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