Show
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The telegraph operator charges by the letter so the villager had to trim the message to the absolute bare essentials, instead of saying "Put on a show of force" it became "Put on a show" and the message becomes very vague.
Source: Film / ¡Three Amigos! -
The opening sequence to the post-apocalyptic show Jericho always featured a telegraph beeping in the background.
Source: Couch Gag / Live-Action TV - In the 1930s and '40s, newspaper columnist Walter Winchell had an extremely popular radio show in which he noisily tapped a telegraph key while he spoke his text into a microphone.
Source: Everyone Knows Morse
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Telegraph and Show. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/show/telegraph
Show & Telegraph. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/show/telegraph>.
Telegraph or Show. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/show/telegraph.
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