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telegraph

noun as in wire

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Technology keeps remaking the way Americans invest, from the introduction of the electric telegraph in 1844 to the advent of artificial intelligence in just the past handful of years.

With four words—“What hath God wrought!”—sent over the first working electric telegraph wire in 1844, Samuel Morse helped change the status quo, and helped catapult New York into a leading position.

“Verbiage, memes, targeting, crude humor and cultural references that are immediately available often telegraph motives for violent symbolic attacks, but can also be amorphous or disjointed,” he said.

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She was watching from the studio one day and that's when I hit a telegraph pole and disappeared off a cliff.

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In a recent interview with Salon, democracy expert Katherine Stewart dubbed the tactic “one of the most frequently telegraphed stunts in the authoritarian canon.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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