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Recent Examples of cable
If your company spends millions upon millions on sports rights, and if your financial success depends on cable and satellite customers paying for a programming bundle that includes sports channels most viewers do not watch, you’re doomed.
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Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Excluding sports and news, the Sistas Season 10 premiere was the top cable telecast among Black viewers on premiere day, particularly in the adults 18-49 demo.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
The interviewees didn’t mention trans rights, Jeffrey Epstein, or other issues that were mainstays of cable news.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
There are many arguments to be made about why this 2000s era of Disney movies seem to have more staying power than originals released during the age of streaming, like less cable viewership, less content made specifically for older age groups, or reduced attention spans.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
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Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
Excluding sports and news, the Sistas Season 10 premiere was the top cable telecast among Black viewers on premiere day, particularly in the adults 18-49 demo.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
The interviewees didn’t mention trans rights, Jeffrey Epstein, or other issues that were mainstays of cable news.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
There are many arguments to be made about why this 2000s era of Disney movies seem to have more staying power than originals released during the age of streaming, like less cable viewership, less content made specifically for older age groups, or reduced attention spans.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cable
Noun
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Transfer to a wire rack set inside a rimmed baking sheet, arranging crispier side down.—
Chris Morocco,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Instead of sending information as electrical signals through copper wire, fiber uses strands of ultra-pure glass—each one thinner than a human hair—to carry data as pulses of light.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Rule breakers Two spectators ducked the rope line late in the day along the 18th fairway and raced to the other side.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Though the rope suggests tidy metaphors of unity, coherence, and formal integrity, a playful but insistent messiness effloresces in Simms’s entanglements, throwing any seeming wholeness into question.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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Dooley untied the cord that held the bundle together like a Christmas present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Don’t use indoor cords outdoors in winter—or any other time of year for that matter—because they aren’t designed to handle moisture, sunlight, and temperature fluctuations and can be a fire hazard.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Cable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cable. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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