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telegraph

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








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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

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

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

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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