telegraphic
adjective
of or relating to the telegraph.
telegraphically
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a word derived from
telegraphic.
Example Sentences
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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
Some of the islands are cut off telegraphically from the rest of the world.
From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
