telegraph

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Recent Examples of telegraph Although childish and superficial, his renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War doesn’t telegraph a love of peace. Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025 This is especially true when facing the game's many bosses, who often only briefly telegraph their intentions before unleashing attacks that can fill a huge portion of the screen. ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025 But the parade, commemorating the end of World War II, was undoubtedly intended to telegraph the rapid advancement of the world’s largest military, and signal Xi’s growing ability to project hard power on the world stage. Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025 Such details might have sounded like clichés in a lesser writer’s hands, but Huston weaves them in such that Hank’s crisis doesn’t telegraph the personal redemption that potentially awaits him. Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for telegraph
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Verb
  • Sophie mailed her invitations the weekend after that initial consultation.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Two of the final few hurdles — calculating and mailing tax bills and distributing that revenue back to government agencies — have been politically thorny.
    A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Enter Kanzi, a bonobo who was raised in a lab and became a whiz at communicating with humans using graphic symbols.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Michele Melnick, Coral Springs A failure to communicate Florida driving tests should be in English only, especially for people who live here permanently, not temporarily.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Patel posted the videos to X, encouraging anyone with information to contact the FBI tip line.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The family was seeking safety in the town of Bohodukhiv, some 60 kilometers (38 miles) west of Kharkiv, having fled their home further east just days ago, Ukrainian police said in a statement posted on Telegram.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026

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“Telegraph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/telegraph. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.

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