telegraph
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Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
I had tried to telegraph to the group that coming back was not a given, and I think the fact that a long time that elapsed also made that clear.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025
The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
Some companies telegraph in advance that layoffs are coming to lessen the shock, though that can fuel anxiety, too.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Before telegraph wires crisscrossed the United States, news traveled only as fast as a horse could run from town to town.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
