telex
noun
a two-way teletypewriter service channeled through a public telecommunications system for instantaneous, direct communication between subscribers at remote locations.
telexes
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present tense formof telex (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The tools of the trade used to be typewriters and telexes, but the thrill is just the same.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
“SIGINT,” in the parlance of the intelligence community, is gleaned from phone transmissions, telexes, emails, satellites and other forms of electronic communication.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2020
You'd be waiting for these telexes to come out of the machine the size of 10 washing machines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
The fixed loci of communication — phone booths, the single land-line handset in the family hallway, untransportable machines known as telexes and, later, faxes — are obsolete or heading that way.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
I keep corresponding with them, and they keep sending me back telexes in Russian.
From Time Magazine Archive
