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wire

[wahyuhr] / waɪər /


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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

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

"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

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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