cable
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Myelin acts much like the insulating material around an electrical cable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Carville’s reputation for colorful turns of phrase, and his tendency to stomp on any calls for the party to move left, made him a favorite of cable news programmers looking to make entertaining television.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
California regulators have approved the sale of Cox Communications to cable giant Charter Communications — the final hurdle in a marathon review to clear the $34.5-billion cable consolidation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
WorldCom, Global Crossing and Qwest spent billions laying fiber-optic cable, building long-haul networks and expanding data-center capacity in anticipation of this demand.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
As the Mary Rose was being lifted onto the barge a heavy cable gave way causing a loud and frightening noise.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Reducing the need for those microwave connections could therefore address two challenges at once: the enormous hardware requirements of large quantum computers and the unwanted noise that cables can introduce into quantum systems.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
He specifically instructed NOAA, which is under his purview, to take offshore oil production, pipeline maintenance, spaceport infrastructure, desalination projects and undersea cables into consideration, citing national priorities and economic interests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Taiwan is one of the very few places in the world where someone tries to sever its undersea cables on a daily basis,” said a senior Taiwan security official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Moreover, he adds, passengers often contribute to the problem by using unsuitable cables and not caring for devices.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Battlefield commanders depended on telephones to gather information and issue orders, yet telephone cables were easily broken during combat.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
"Stick with us," cabled Morecambe, "and we will get you another one".
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
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 information was cabled to headquarters in Moscow, which reported that the technical details were of “great interest.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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"This is all one big unit, meaning we can't just replace the front charge port. We have to replace the charger itself, the inverter, and some of the cabling", he explains.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
There are demand-driven capacity crunches in everything from fiber-optic cabling to electric power to water for cooling chip factories to undeveloped land for data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
They also integrated the required electronics, cabling, structural supports, and measurement tools.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 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 cabling was easy to detach, too, just a couple of complicated plugs.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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