telegraphing

verb

present participle of telegraph
as in communicating

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  1. communicating
  2. mailing
  3. writing
  4. posting
Verb
  • At the supervisors’ meeting, Lorraine Pedrotti, who owns property south of Centerville Beach, said the county has done a poor job communicating with nearby landowners.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Stop-motion is very much about physical puppets and physical sets, about communicating emotional beats with puppets.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of communicating
Verb
  • In 1912 Ramanujan, a 24-year-old clerk at what was then the Madras Port Trust in India, began mailing pages of new, unproven formulas to mathematicians across England.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
  • An Illinois man was arrested and charged by federal authorities for allegedly mailing letters containing an unknown substance to the state’s congressional offices, the Department of Justice said on Monday.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of mailing
Verb
  • Composers devised elaborate systems for writing music that ventured deep into dissonance, away from the rules of tonality that had governed it for centuries.
    — Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
  • The prompts presented the assistant as a character in creative-writing exercises.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of writing
Verb
  • To prepare for the holiday season, retailers are posting more permanent part-time jobs in place of seasonal roles, says Ullrich.
    — Itzel Franco, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Ahsan Masih was accused of posting blasphemous content to TikTok in 2023, and was sentenced to death the following year.
    — Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of posting
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