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cable

[kay-buhl] / ˈkeɪ bəl /
NOUN
chain
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MS NOW is now owned by Versant, a group of cable channels spun off from NBCUniversal.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

In December last year, Finnish police detained a vessel sailing from Russia, which was suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia, across the Gulf of Finland.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

But growth that comes from charging the same households more every year is what cable companies did for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Nexstar’s cable news channel NewsNation will have a camera fixed on the analysts from Decision Desk HQ, the upstart company that provides voting data to media outlets and corporations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

“I’ve been on a cable car, but not that often. They run on the other side of the city.”

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

The recent Telegraph revelation of more than 500 incidents where Russian boats have been stationed above undersea cables has also caused concern.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Those points might represent cities, PCs, subway stations, or organs, while the connections could stand for highways, cables, railway lines, or blood vessels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

The same ship was seen in 2024 near cables in the Bering Sea and between Guam and Taiwan, the study found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The wireless carrier beats Wall Street’s earnings target and signs a deal to provide fiberoptic cables to Amazon data centers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Our beloved Cleo is attached to a complicated system of pulleys, winches, rope, and steel cables.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

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

Finally, on Jan. 2, 1950, Mao cabled the communist leadership in Beijing:

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 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

The information was cabled to headquarters in Moscow, which reported that the technical details were of “great interest.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

Onnec’s 800 employees install and maintain cabling and equipment racks inside data centers for major technology companies in Europe and Asia-Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

They then use specialized compressed-air-jetting equipment to propel fiber-optic cabling through the conduit, which then runs across a river and into the city.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Examples of electrical wire covered with vulcanised Indian rubber cabling were found.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 2026

So I brought all the electrical cabling I could fit.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir


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