live wire

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Recent Examples of live wire Thieves also have been electrocuted while trying to steal copper from live wires. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 27 May 2025 Krieger says the singer was a live wire literally from the band's formation. Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 14 May 2025 The Pittsburgh Public Safety Department said one of the two deaths happened when a Pittsburgh man was electrocuted by live wires, per Accuweather. Raven Brunner, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025 Like other great comedy duos, Vaughn and Wilson are a smoothly compatible mismatch; Vaughn’s energy is cranked up, a sparking live wire, while Wilson is an easy-breezy roll-with-it type. Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for live wire
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Noun
  • New Zealand has strict gun laws, which require an additional permit for possessing pistols specifically.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Police said the investigation uncovered a series of videos, alleged to have been taken in Milpitas by the suspect or an acquaintance, showing a person repeatedly firing an semiautomatic pistol into the air and at a wall.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The project examines how Elizabeth Taylor transformed from a child actress into a powerhouse performer, global businesswoman, and humanitarian whose influence on celebrity culture echoes today.
    Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor Swift is an enormous commercial powerhouse.
    Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Edison’s bulb was just one piece of a much more complicated system that included an efficient dynamo – the powerful machine that generated electricity – plus a network of underground wires and new types of lamps.
    Ernest Freeberg, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The new season of the UEFA Champions League gets underway on Tuesday as Dutch dynamo PSV Eindhoven hosts Belgian side Union Saint-Gilloise.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Live wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/live%20wire. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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