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cable

[key-buhl] / ˈkeɪ bəl /
NOUN
chain
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The company bought a 10.7% stake in cable channel Starz for $25 million in March.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The combined companies would house two major movie and television studios, the CBS broadcast network, dozens of cable channels including CNN, and streaming services Paramount+ and HBO Max.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Charter Communications’ latest earnings results highlight the increasingly competitive broadband market, which has proved challenging for established cable providers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Cameron said unlike its sister islands Guernsey and Jersey, Alderney did not have cable supplying electricity from France.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Every person who bought a particular model of television came to believe that TV shows had become particularly mean-spirited of late, and they all canceled their cable and took to other hobbies.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

The Senussi Files seem to corroborate several details first mentioned in the cables, including the presence of semtex at Luqa Airport in Malta.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

Prysmian said the deal will increase its capacity for optical cables and fiber—doubling its fiber capacity in the U.S. compared with the current baseline.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“Seeing that face with all the cables and all the wires and all the things going on, it just kind of encompasses all of it and takes it right back,” he said.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

The defence's main argument is that the bridge had a hidden construction defect, namely corrosion of the bridge's cables, and it was this that caused its collapse, not a lack of maintenance.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Ahead of them, he could see towering cabinets full of interconnected wires and cables and silicon chips—what he thought of generically as computer stuff.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Q: My wife has a 5-year-old Dell laptop cabled to our router and a 2007 Brother printer.

From Seattle Times Nov. 26, 2022

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

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

Shortly before he left for Chicago, he cabled Rice, “If the board of directors have decided not to run until Wednesday you may carry out their wishes.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

From Science Daily Apr. 27, 2026

In January, Corning notched a $6 billion deal to supply Meta Platforms with cabling, optical fiber, and connectivity solutions for data centers.

From Barron's Apr. 16, 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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