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Before that, the play telegraphically covers most of the plot points leading to that ghastly reckoning, though not in ways that particularly bring to mind the America of today.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2017

Knowing I was a medical student, she spoke telegraphically: “Your knee is destroyed. You will go to the OR as his first case.”

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2015

Céline in 1955 … ‘you write telegraphically or you don’t write at all’.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

This transformation is telegraphically visible in the TeleGeography report showing the expansion in submarine capacity has grown as much on every oceanic route as on the formerly dominant trans-Atlantic one.

From Forbes • Apr. 19, 2013

Massawa is also telegraphically connected with the outside world by a cable to Perim via Assab.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various