telegraph

"Another time a lorry coming down the hill hit the bridge, then a car and a telegraph pole."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The incident dates back to the 1840s, when electric telegraph networks were beginning to transform long-distance communication.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

But it’s 2026 now and Marianne is independent, the movie’s director, Georgia Oakley, wants to telegraph to the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

If a candidate rents, it may telegraph to a voter where they are on the class spectrum, what generation they’re in and the kinds of affordability challenges they’re dealing with, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Alexander Graham Bell, working on development of a talking telegraph, got essential patents toward his efforts in 1876 and 1877, the year he and partners started the Bell Telephone Company.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

Following “the Sydney Cherkov way,” she wears a lilac blouse that telegraphs meek, demure energy.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 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

We step into a park where we once played as children and possibility telegraphs into the future and the past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 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

“Succession seems to work better when there’s more of a pass-the-baton relay, where someone has been telegraphed as being the heir apparent, and that person is visible for a lengthy period of time,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

In vain Amy telegraphed the word ‘talk’, tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Residents and businesses say the approach allows individuals to, in effect, evade removal by telegraphing that if they relocate across the street on the sixth day then the seven-day clock will restart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Fewer large companies have been telegraphing job cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

When the VIX peaked around 90 during the 2008-09 financial crisis, telegraphing extreme fear that the financial system might collapse, stock buyers were rewarded.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

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