live wire

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Recent Examples of live wire Harmony, for all her accomplishments, is a live wire and a threat. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025 The drama tonight is about the host, Jerry Lewis, at the time something of a live wire and out of keeping with Academy tradition. Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 And then, there were these live wires from all the cables on the ground. Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025 Alcazar is a live wire who gives the production its energy. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for live wire
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Noun
  • Macias fired the first shot at Sweet with a 9mm pistol because Macias said that Sweet ran over his foot, Burnette told the detectives.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025
  • During that year, the .45-caliber pistol, which went missing from the Gresham District police station, was used in at least three crimes, Illinois Answers and the Sun-Times found.
    David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • There’s another intimate powerhouse of a show at the Museum of Modern Art.
    Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • The United States, once the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, now sees nearly 80% of its GDP derived from services.
    Richard Lebovitz, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Patterson has made Judy into a dynamo, a standout on a show of standouts, and arguably the most unpredictable character in a world where Walton Goggins plays an elderly religious showman with a cocaine problem and a love of water skiing naked.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 1 May 2025
  • Porter was also a dynamo on special teams, indicative of his athletic gifts, blocking a punt in each of the past four seasons (and one field goal last year) and finishing his collegiate career with 18 tackles.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Live wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/live%20wire. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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