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telegraph

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








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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

In 1876, he built the country’s first industrial research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, for $2,500, paid for with money earned from his telegraph inventions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 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

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

I signed it and asked him for two telegraph forms, and wrote a message to the Hotel Montoya, telling them to forward all mail and telegrams for me to this address.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

It telegraphs that Abigail is no barbaric horror fiend but instead a sophisticated aesthete, which makes her both scarier and funnier.

From New York Times Apr. 22, 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

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

With Phillips resuming on 49, England telegraphed their plan and Phillips was happy to take on the short ball.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

SoFi had telegraphed the launch for months, KBW analyst Tim Switzer said in a research note, but the firm was still “impressed” by the roster of crypto partners.

From Barron's Apr. 3, 2026

Moving-average crossovers aren’t meant to provide trading signals, as they are well telegraphed.

From MarketWatch Mar. 31, 2026

Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts telegraphed the President, “The quota of troops required of Massachusetts is ready. How will you have them proceed?”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Warsh made it clear he wants a more tight-lipped central bank, one that isn’t telegraphing the Fed’s plans for interest rates in advance.

From MarketWatch Jul. 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

“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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