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wire

[wahyuhr] / waɪər /


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It’s one of the few places you can be sure no one is wearing a wire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

At 16, I was entrusted with one of the most important pieces of technology at a suburban Chili’s: a wire rack full of restaurant pagers.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Makeshift barriers formed from shipping containers and razor wire to block traffic to Peshawar's administrative zone remained in place.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

He has felt the squeeze personally too, citing high diesel, fertiliser, lumber and steel costs - everything from barbed wire to fence posts.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

And reaching across me he would yank a wire from its housing or twist a tiny tube from an assembly.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Solar panels can be installed on the outside of a building, and wires can run everywhere, and those create trip hazards and panels can create fire hazards.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

But wait — he has no soul, just wires, processors, fluid and whatnot, plus a set of AI personas guiding his interactions with the human world.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

"The wires between these GPUs, CPUs, and all this compute are what's slowing us down," says Sharp.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

And that was before the surf zone became riddled with rocks, logs, rods, pipes and wires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Before telegraph wires crisscrossed the United States, news traveled only as fast as a horse could run from town to town.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Inglewood, which last year wired Kroenke $20 million, is demanding that money back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

If asked, I probably would have told you I was feeling a little tired, wired, or off-kilter, so none of those readings were all that revelatory.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 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

In this way, individual bacterial components can be "wired" together much like parts on an electronic circuit board.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Reporters from far-flung cities wired the same observation back to their editors, and stories of delight and awe began to percolate through the most remote towns.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Bright Saver is trying to get UL Solutions, the main certifier, to exempt solar kits under 360 watts, which many experts agree produce too little power to endanger the grid or overwhelm a home’s wiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

As demand for optical and networking components has skyrocketed this year, shares of the companies that produce those components — like lasers, wiring and electronics — have staged major gains.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

At the suggestion of the arborist, we had the tree’s main limbs secured by industrial wiring that prevented them from swinging too wildly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The brain's microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

He held on with his legs, trying to ignore the pain and sticky blood on his hands as he redid the serpent’s wiring.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan


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