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Network Rail said the new system "eradicates the failure mechanisms of the past by providing complete separation of bimetallic elements and using a copper contact wire which improves current collection" from overhead wires by trains.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

In other cases, they want you to pay money — via cryptocurrency, wire transfer, gift cards, you name it.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

However, much of the Caballero family’s performance lore begins with Isabel’s son, 82-year-old Rubén: an apparatus connoisseur well-versed in the high wire, trapeze and hand balancing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The two men have traded barbs for years, and as it comes down the wire Mr. Trump hasn’t let up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

There were no walls, no barbed wire, and the barracks had windowboxes.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom