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My coffee table is made of aluminum and resembles barbed wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tadej Pogacar won again, nearly wire to wire, by a massive margin: 6 minutes, 26 seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Working under the bridge's blue lights, dozens of Taiwanese army combat engineers assisted by cranes and trucks set up layers of concrete and steel barriers, barbed wire and Hesco walls along the nearly one-kilometre-long bridge.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
A quarter-mile roll of barbed wire has doubled, from $60 to $130.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Part of the way we walked beside a small woods, separated only by a roll of barbed wire from a glistening world of dewdrops.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
“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
You might think of a cable as a wire but it is actually a bundle of wires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Absorbed students carefully threaded wires into junction boxes to make circuits connected to lights, bulbs flickering on one by one to signal a job well done.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
He popped open a hatch on the sphere, teased out two wires, and connected them to his crossbar.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Whether it's digital cameras, iPods or wired earphones, does a renewed love for early-digital gadgets among some young people tell us something more?
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Rupireddy wired over money before the end of the year, including $17,250 to take part in a fund that held shares in SpaceX, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
During the war, the government handed it to a top-secret military intelligence unit, and engineers wired it with hidden microphones throughout -- even in the garden.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
“This question tells us that people, as a whole, are wired to avoid risks, especially when a guarantee or ‘sure thing’ is also offered,” Brindle said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
“At least not yet. We also had to immobilize his jaw so that the fracture would heal, so it’s wired shut.”
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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The spacecraft's top deck has been aligned, while its internal wiring is undergoing extensive testing before closeout panels are installed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The government removed the bugs when the war ended, but some wiring was left behind and is now on display at the museum, which opened as part of redevelopment by a property company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
For investors hunting the Tier 1 suppliers of physical AI, the layers Nvidia is wiring up sort into a few buckets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
“At each ring setting, the wiring inside the rotor changes,” Beryl says.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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