Flag
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- Many accounts of messages sent by military commanders engaged in combat, sometimes due to needing to keep it brief so they could focus on the fighting, and sometimes because the nature of how the messages were sent (telegraph, flag signals, etc.) tended to favor brief messages.
Source: Terse Talker
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Telegraph and Flag. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/flag/telegraph
Flag & Telegraph. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/flag/telegraph>.
Telegraph or Flag. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/flag/telegraph.
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