wire
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His death energized Mississippi residents and prompted Johnson to wire his condolences to the family.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Albanians have been protesting against the project for months, but it was when barbed wire appeared six weeks ago to mark out the boundaries of the complex that anger erupted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
At a city Department of Water and Power stockyard last year, $55,000 in copper wire equipment was stolen, she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Underneath the quiet sits a live wire: the “Magnificent Seven,” nearly left for dead after a punishing first half of 2026, but quietly coming back to life in the past two weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
It’s connected to the computer by a thin wire.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
“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
The sound of pliers clicking filled a workshop in eastern China's Hangzhou as a group of women practised stripping wires, their female instructor moving around the classroom to offer advice.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Dozens of wires snaked around three electronic boxes, one of them connected to an old-school car battery for supplemental power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
I untangled the wires in my headlamp, put them together so the lamp worked, cut up the sled covering, and made a rough flag.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
We are wired to think too well of ourselves.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Picture this: a team of camera-clad cleaners and a private chef to boot, all wired with high-tech recording apparatus show up at your home.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
“They’re pretty wired up,” Birkey said, adding that the plane may have been equipped with additional sensors to record information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
As he talked he wired the block of charcoal firmly to one end of the stone, then began measuring snippets of metal into the hollow in the charcoal.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The brutal heat and intense working conditions inside the kitchen and the front area of the business come after a thief wrecked the rooftop air conditioning unit in search of copper wiring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
Auto makers are increasingly using aluminum wiring due to copper prices rising over 20% and aluminum over 100% in a year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Ageing cables, lead pipes, wiring and boilers are set to be replaced in the renovation, many for the first time in 60 years, after concern about potential fire and water damage.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
And the ancient electrical wiring was as likely as before to burn the house down.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
