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They constructed elaborate barricades with concrete, sandbags and razor wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Jefferis' team and collaborators painstakingly analysed every nerve cell, every wire and every connection in a male fruit fly.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Amount stolen Aug. 5 from the United Methodist Church New England Conference by hackers posing as bank representatives and making wire transfers to fraudulent accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"She's unstoppable, like a live wire," said Ice, whose blue eyes -- which gave him his call-sign -- warmed up when he looked at his wife.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
They’d barely begun to search when they spotted a shortwave radio, with a wire snaking into the bathroom and dangling out the window.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Tiny electrical wires built into the chip then generated carefully controlled magnetic fields.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
“There are PVC pipes, wires and a railway tie underneath the water and occasionally some metal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Nick previously covered corporate disclosure news for Dow Jones Newswires as a wires editor and reporter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“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
The little shed was lined to the ceiling with shelves full of nuts and bolts, wires, tools, jars filled with shards of glass and broken bits of sheet metal.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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
Sulloway’s research on birth order and risk-taking reveals that later-borns are more psychologically wired to take strategic risks to carve out their own niche and stand out in the family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
They all seemed to be wired together, pointing in the same direction and connected to a single bronze lever on the side.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
And the inspiration that's likely to be important is actually real biological wiring diagrams.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Research published in Science Advances suggests that brain evolution may be better understood in terms of wiring rather than newer regions being stacked on top of older ones.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
A single 1-gigawatt AI facility can require tens of thousands of tons of copper for wiring, cooling and power distribution.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The internet as we knew it might have been torn down to the studs by Silicon Valley bigwigs looking to sell the wiring for scrap, but the bones are still good.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Maybe the wiring in the house shorted. Or maybe someone left the stove on.”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
