Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Wilder was telegraphing his right hands as Parker continued to land more cleanly as the fight entered the championship rounds.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
Then at some point, I really paid attention to what the script was telegraphing.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2020
But I think what Pelosi was telegraphing — and I haven't asked her this and I likely won't — is that they need to still ...
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2019
Esmail had originally considered using score for this scene but, he says, “it often felt like it was telegraphing suspense instead of building it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
Yet so strangely was the same information misread by Halleck, that on the 16th he was telegraphing Grant that Burnside was hesitating whether to fight or retreat out of East Tennessee.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
