Example Sentences

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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

For now, the bond market is telegraphing that “the Fed’s current interest-rate trajectory under Fed Chair Jerome Powell is the correct way to manage risks.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

When the app became popular earlier this year, officials said it would jeopardize agents’ safety by telegraphing their locations to the public.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

They are quietly managing empires and businesses of their own while telegraphing homesteading realness, shielding their own version of a “girlboss” reality.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2024

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