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  • noun Plural form of telegram.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of telegram.

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Examples

  • And there came in telegrams from India on the same lines, that they would be prepared to leave the Commonwealth as well.

    The Struggle for the Middle East 1957

  • There came in telegrams from elsewhere, and to cap it all, there came the Hungarian revolt, with Russian fury at being thwarted in the Middle East, reeking its revenge on poor Budapest.

    The Struggle for the Middle East 1957

  • There came in telegrams from Canada (as yet, luckily for Ottawa, not divulged!).

    The Struggle for the Middle East 1957

  • The New York journals continue to receive telegrams from the South by way of Louisville, the chief city of the neutral State of Kentucky, at which place Southern journals are still received.

    The Civil War in America 1861

  • She is known to read all copies of Foreign Office "telegrams" - especially concerning the Commonwealth.

    SHOULD THE MONARCHY END? 2009

  • General attention is directed by matters that appear in telegrams in the newspapers, such as the Protocol, discussions on Security and Defence, and that sort of thing, that take place while the Assembly is going on; but when you meet the Secretariat of the League and attend such a school, you realize that the power of the League is not in those external matters, but in the great accomplishments that have constantly been going on through the activities of the Secretariat and those connected with it all over Europe.

    London, Paris, Geneva 1925

  • a serious topic in the telegrams from the Soviet embassy in Oslo to the leaders in Moscow.

    The Nobel Peace Prize: Revelations from the Soviet Past 2005

  • That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

    Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

  • At the head of the telegrams was a two-sheet one from our baker in the country, sent off the moment I was a prisoner, addressed to "The Castle where Suffragettes are confined, Holloway," most anxious about my food, and might he send the special bread he always made for me!

    Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

  • His letters were read by thousands far beyond the Eastern States, and often his telegrams were the only voice crying out of the wilderness of suspense, and first heard at Washington and throughout the country, proclaiming victory.

    Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885

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