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telegraphic

adjective

ˌte-lə-ˈgra-fik

Definition of telegraphic

as in concise

marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning when dealing with her staff, she communicated mostly in telegraphic sentences and meaningful looks

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Recent Examples of telegraphic While Morse played up people’s interest in telegraphic chess, the game itself didn’t obviously begin with promotional intent. — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025 Hearst and other publishers, like Joseph Pulitzer, saw circulation spikes from their vivid, lurid, and constant coverage, facilitated by new technologies that brought battlefield color to readers at telegraphic speed. — Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Chan perused some 170 telegraphic code books, finally coming across a section about signals used by the US Army Signal Corps that were similar to the pages found in the antique silk dress. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2024 As a grad student, Blackburn began trying her hand at this telegraphic style of storytelling. — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for telegraphic

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This excellent volume contains a series of concise and authoritative essays on key aspects of the Ghetto’s early history, written by leading experts in the field.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Gemini needed 11 seconds to respond despite delivering a more concise, straight-to-the-point answer.

— Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of concise

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This episode notably lacked any nod to Trump, though mentions of the president as a whole have been brief compared to the previous season, when the president was the show’s focal point for absurd antics.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
The questions came after Zacharia made a brief debut to the media on Tuesday, taking just three questions from reporters after reading off a script.

— Michael Birnbaum The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of brief

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The judge considered hundreds of pages of evidence and testimony from San Diego officials, homeowners and their lawyers and determined that the city had not met the burden for what is called summary adjudication in any of the five causes of actions.

— Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Such rights obviously do not include summary execution at sea.

— Mary Ellen O'Connell, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025

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