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wire

[wahyuhr] / waɪər /


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A built-in alarm system, which would have sounded a noise and shown a light to indicate the rear doors were open, did not work as a wire was broken, the inquest was told.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

It’s as lean as a wire, a story told in 88 fast-moving minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she allegedly wrote to the donor via the encrypted Signal messaging app.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

We’ve made three trips to the transfer station and one trip around the mall to the box stores and collected a ton of free stuff: nails, wood, wire, shingles, and more!

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

“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 solar cells are cut into narrow strips, layered like overlapping shingles, and connected to each other using electrically conductive adhesive, rather than metal wires.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Those channels can also hold extremely thin metal wires used to measure electrical activity in the brain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

He popped open a hatch on the sphere, teased out two wires, and connected them to his crossbar.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

At this age, young adolescents’ brains are being wired to build relationships, so the risks compound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The whole building is wired for video and audio, meaning artists can walk in, record a podcast, appear on a radio show, and live-stream a gig in the same day.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 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

And even so, they would all have to be wired together, intricately and delicately, as we are, communicating with each other, talking incessantly, listening.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

It's here, in the spaghetti-like wiring which snakes through a data centre where copper is targeted for replacement.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

It was still raining hard and 1 thought some of the stops in the movement of the column might be from cars with wet wiring.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway


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