telegraph
Example Sentences
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Central bank officials have used speeches and events to telegraph where they believe the economy and interest rates are headed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
I had tried to telegraph to the group that coming back was not a given, and I think the fact that a long time that elapsed also made that clear.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025
The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
Shackleton had no choice but to telegraph the Admiralty and place the entire ship, crew, and stores at the Royal Navy’s disposal.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
