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was telegraphing

  • past progressive
    of telegraph.
    telegraph
    noun
    an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.

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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

Or, if he didn’t say it outright, he was telegraphing it to the world in block letters the size of the Hollywood sign.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2017

Graham got them together while I was telegraphing with the natives, some of whom I perceived filling some vessel with water, with which they retired into the woods.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell