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trip wire

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Definition of trip wire

as in land mine

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Recent Examples of trip wire With Partridge taking over and Notre Dame adding Brewu, Keeley and Gray through the transfer portal, a position group that felt like a trip wire one month ago now looks more like a launching pad. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026 It was set up with a pulley system and a trip wire that would fire the crossbow when a deer’s leg tripped it. — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025 Having some European forces on the ground as trip wires, building up economic integration. — NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 Voters have ideas Lawmakers are back in the Capitol this week with big ambitions, a messy calendar and a thousand potential trip wires, especially among Republicans who call the shots. — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trip wire

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Poy was wounded in a second land mine explosion that pierced his face and body with shrapnel and killed three of his colleagues.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
More than any other sports league, the WNBA is fraught with land mines that are ready to explode whenever a Black woman — like, Alyssa Thomas — commits a hard foul on, say, the league’s most visible star, Caitlin Clark.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of land mine

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Productivity and Content Creation Tests Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work.

— Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 19 Sep. 2026
Chatfield hired Jennifer Szabo as his web developer early on to make the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

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Video from Citizen App showed another person trying to keep the pit bull away and then a police officer restraining the dog with a snare pole, leading it away as first responders attended to the victim.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
The second was a one-handed snare in the corner of the end zone in the opening minutes of the third quarter to give Mandarin a double-digit lead in an eventual 38-21 win over Hollywood McArthur.

— Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026

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In the meantime, his insatiable paranoia will be exacerbated by the missing family cat, and his decision to let the alarm company booby trap the house with fog bombs will literally blow up in his face.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026
Before this dilemma can play out, Hal triggers an Indiana Jones–esque booby trap inside the compound’s stronghold, summoning Macon’s men with their advanced weaponry.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026

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