telegraph
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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
A December day in Stalingrad in 1942: “The dark clouds shed their burden, then brightened and climbed higher into the sky. The fog froze, settling as a thick white powder on army telegraph cables.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
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
“Soon as they telegraph me from New York, we go’n drape a big banner acrost the front of the store, tellin’ what train to meet.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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But the scares were middling to begin with because Øvredal — a game but overeager trickster — telegraphs his set pieces as if he were equipped with a flare gun and detour cones.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Experts say the FAA’s shifting approach telegraphs a disquieting truth about air safety as private companies increasingly push to use the skies as their laboratories: Regulators are learning as they go.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026
As America moved to mechanized textile mills, telegraphs and urbanization, that created demand for factory workers, machinists and communications clerks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Technology was always state-of-the-art, from the early days of telegraphs to telephones and beyond, he writes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 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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Under Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, top Fed officials often telegraphed decisions to the markets ahead of the meeting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
Mamdani said his next option was to levy higher property taxes, though he consistently telegraphed that he would not prefer to go that route.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's co-founder and chief executive, made public comments in January that essentially telegraphed the company would be cutting jobs again this year.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Then he telegraphed the chief of the city's police to send officers to the White House to protect it.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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Notably, Warsh declined to offer his own dots, saying he is not a fan of telegraphing such guidance to the public.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 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
When the app became popular earlier this year, officials said it would jeopardize agents’ safety by telegraphing their locations to the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
“We’re living in a moment where fast food is doing a strange kind of double duty — not just feeding us, but telegraphing tribal affiliations.”
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025
There was a lot of whispering and telegraphing and general secretiveness, the details of which even my sensitive ears could not take in.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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