wires

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Since 2019, Edison has spent billions of dollars on making its lines safer, including by undergrounding them and installing insulated wires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The cameras were attached to trip wires so that when the horse passed each one, it would take a perfectly timed photograph.

From Slate • May 25, 2026

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

The short answer: Your accountant has their wires crossed — or you may have misunderstood what they said.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker