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Recent Examples of wire
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 June 2026
The tow lot was surrounded by chain-link fencing threaded with strips of plastic and topped by barbed wire.
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Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Stephen Whyno,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
Watched Colorado pounce early and lead wire to wire, to a game dominated by the Wild from the opening faceoff.
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Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
13 May 2026
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Noun
In a solid wire, phonons move freely like open highway traffic.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 June 2026
The tow lot was surrounded by chain-link fencing threaded with strips of plastic and topped by barbed wire.
—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
Verb
Taj Mahal is unbeaten in three races, all at Laurel Park, including going wire to wire to win the Federico Tesio Stakes on April 18 by more then eight lengths.
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Stephen Whyno,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2026
Watched Colorado pounce early and lead wire to wire, to a game dominated by the Wild from the opening faceoff.
—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wire
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The spots urging public action more closely resemble a cable TV carriage fight, but the stakes in this case are much higher, given the FCC’s threat to revoke ABC’s broadcast licenses.
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David Yurman jewelry is known for its timeless American luxury style that can worn for everyday use, not just special occasions, and for its signature sculptural cable motif.
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Together, the 500 companies on the list roped in $21 trillion in revenue and $2.1 trillion in profits last year, employing 30.5 million people worldwide.
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There’s a big frontier out there to conquer, and Courseau is now enough of a cowboy to rope it, brand it, and ride it into the sunset.
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The cord is surrounded by muscle that helps the testicle move.
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Underneath the mesh fabric, the speaker has a flat, plastic base with a physical mute switch on one side near the attached power cord.
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Grey has been pegged as the future of NXT and giving her the title would certainly strap a rocket to her back.
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Companies run teleoperation farms where people strap into VR rigs and exoskeletons and pilot robots through the same dull tasks over and over, logging every motion as training data.
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In one of prettiest team goals of this tournament, Ayase Ueda skillfully found Ritsu Doan, who threaded it to Maeda.
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Her first retrospective opens this week at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in upstate New York, where curator Candice Hopkins has brought together some 55 works, threading them together with contextual archival materials.
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One group counts $25 million in support from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, alongside $100 million tied to one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms, which holds a large stake in OpenAI.
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That might be a tall order on the field after Lionel Messi’s record-tying hat trick against Algeria led Argentina to victory on Tuesday.
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“Wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wire. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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