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telegraph

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








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Ms. Lee tends to telegraph her plot turns, especially those regarding the characters’ romantic fortunes, and then takes an eternity to arrive where the story is obviously going.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

Stone said during the Carrington Event, "even telegraph wires were heard to hum and crackle, and they were able to run the telegraph poles without any electricity because the input was so high".

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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

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

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

He celebrated the wave of innovations that had enriched human existence—railroads, steamships, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, anesthetics, antiseptics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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

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

Under Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, top Fed officials often telegraphed decisions to the markets ahead of the meeting.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The action, which Boeing and regulators had telegraphed in recent weeks, sent Boeing shares sharply higher.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 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

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

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

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

“No, but just like telegraphing is different from one person to another, handwriting is too. See here?”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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