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telegraph

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








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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

A woman has been seriously injured after being trapped underneath a fallen telegraph pole in a train station car park.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

But it was generations of American workers who strung the telegraph wire, laid the railroad tracks, and built the interstate highways and buried the fiber.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

The Powell Fed, in short, offered an unprecedented level of what academics refer to as forward guidance, or indications of any sort that telegraph the likely path of short-term interest rates.

From Barron's May 17, 2026

Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman’s knock of the telegraph boy.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

But that is the power of Buteau’s ebullient charisma, which telegraphs to audiences that her preternatural comic rhythm and dolled-up, side-eye style of delivery are in service of being a warmhearted bestie.

From New York Times May 27, 2024

Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: “Let the thing be pressed.”

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

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

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

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 Supersonic divestiture, which the analysts say hadn’t been previously telegraphed, introduces some short-term uncertainty around timing and deal terms.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 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

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

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

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

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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