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cable

[key-buhl] / ˈkeɪ bəl /
NOUN
chain
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He joined the Journal in 2005 as an entertainment columnist in New York, and later covered the business of television, including large media and cable companies such as Viacom and Comcast.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Upstart rivals—the DuMont Television Network in the 1940s and ’50s, then cable TV and satellite in the 1960s—were suppressed, while only a handful of viable stations were assigned to more than 80 TV channels.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Emergency personnel required approximately 40 feet of cable to rescue the victims, according to the California Highway Patrol’s traffic log.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

Livestream shopping, also called social commerce, is like the old cable shopping channels, but there are millions of shows, each serving a very specific niche, broadcasting live.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

He held a bowling ball, attached to a cable that hung from the ceiling, right in front of his nose.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Digitimes says the shift should create opportunities across the supply chain, from switch and interconnect chipmakers to suppliers of cables, connectors and optical components, particularly in Taiwan’s hardware ecosystem.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Some are controlled by fibre-optic cables to prevent electronic jamming.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Around Versova, a densely populated neighbourhood on the city's northwest, at least 13 of India's 18 intercontinental submarine cables, external come ashore within six kilometres of one another.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, embedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The author himself permitted an American actor who cabled to him in 1899 to ask his permission to take a creative liberty with his signature hero.

From Salon Apr. 16, 2025

Mr. Bondarev, part of the team working on arms control and disarmament at Russia’s Geneva mission, said he had seen misleading information cabled to Moscow in recent weeks.

From New York Times May 23, 2022

You cabled our two vehicles together and towed me to the Ace Hardware.

From Seattle Times Jan. 4, 2022

The van has a wifi system, which involves a router being cabled to an antenna on the van's roof that links up to satellites.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2021

Later, her letters alarmed him so much that he cabled her to say she should leave Riverbank right away.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

If I were running a brand in the data-center space, I’d be in that community posting behind-the-scenes shots of my meticulously organized cabling and watching the comments roll in.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

They also integrated the required electronics, cabling, structural supports, and measurement tools.

From Science Daily Apr. 27, 2026

Though ultimately the government could save Moerdijk, and opt for the alternative of squeezing the substations and their cabling around and in between the four villages.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2026

They said that AI can do the “opposite” of what automation does, and “generate demand for novel human expertise” like electrical installation or fiber-optic cabling.

From MarketWatch Mar. 12, 2026

The door was surrounded by things like cabling, hooks and the plates that linked the bare-bones machinery of the door hydraulics with the more aesthetic wall coverings of the large cargo room.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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