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He pointed to an opening in a wire fence leading to the Guadalupe River bed and said the grave was near a trail below the roadway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Photographers from major wire services and news organizations like The New York Times and The Washington Post stopped publishing new images of the octogenarian chief executive.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Cavendish placed two lead balls at opposite ends of a wooden beam suspended horizontally from its center by a thin wire.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
And maybe it’s a moot point: Supplying all the copper to wire them would have led to a 25% shortfall of supply for the vital metal by 2040, according to S&P Global.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nearly every surface is covered with books or overflowing wire trays.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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These wires naturally tend to align with the polarization direction of incoming light.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
“There are PVC pipes, wires and a railway tie underneath the water and occasionally some metal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
She later shared images of herself in hospital with tubes and wires sticking out of her body.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Light It Up: Startup Lumilens has raised at a $5.5 billion valuation to replace data-center wires with light as firms search for better ways to connect growing numbers of AI chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
I tried to make my broken headlamp work, to signal her that I was in distress, but I couldn't get the wires together in the dark.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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"We know olfaction is powerfully wired into the brain's appetite and emotion networks, but surprisingly, no study has systematically looked at the three-way interaction between smell, appetite, and actual resistance exercise capacity," said Nashrudin Naharudin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
On June 23, 2023, Molina wired $131,523 from the nonprofit’s bank accounts in Laguna Hills, according to the indictment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The scammer might have asked to have money wired to an account with a name that doesn’t match the one the scammer has been using, for instance, or promised a repayment that never arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Nearby, a table-tennis-playing humanoid the height of a 10-year-old child was wired to the internet as it returned a ball to its human opponent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
And even so, they would all have to be wired together, intricately and delicately, as we are, communicating with each other, talking incessantly, listening.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Among her tasks: wiring acclaimed authors for sound before they go on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, up to 20 tonnes is used for the network wiring connecting up those computer servers.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The brain's microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
An early store cost $950 to open: $740 for a secondhand ice-cream machine, $120 for rent and $90 for electrical wiring and decor, Zhang Hongfu wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It was still raining hard and 1 thought some of the stops in the movement of the column might be from cars with wet wiring.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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