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Recent Examples of wire
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2025
The jurors deliberated for two days before reaching their verdicts, which included one acquittal of a wire-fraud count.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
All the victories were gate to wire fashion at sprint distances.
—Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Place chopped leaves in a large wire bin and wet each layer.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 30 Oct. 2025
The jurors deliberated for two days before reaching their verdicts, which included one acquittal of a wire-fraud count.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
Olsen’s dental team also had to rebuild her jawbone with cadaver bone grafts, wire her jaw shut, remove broken teeth, and stabilize ones that became loose.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
All the victories were gate to wire fashion at sprint distances.
—Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wire
Noun
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Wireless and cable still represent roughly 85% of Rogers’ revenue, but the media and sports segment has been growing faster, as the company looks to unlock some of that value for shareholders.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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Traditionally performed on a bench with footplates and an attached cable machine, a heavy resistance band can emulate a similar effect.—
Leoni Jesner,
Health,
1 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The cascade of snow and ice swept away members of two separate rope teams.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
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When Josh got home five minutes later, Martin met him at the door with a knife and chased him upstairs, stabbing him and then strangling him with a belt or a rope, Evans said.—
KC Baker,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Marty Friedman straps one on and puts it through its paces, cranking out some maximum riffage while lighting up Godzilla on the face of the guitar.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Oct. 2025
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There are no public details of what specific benefits or financial incentives the college — which has been strapped for cash — would get from the high-rise presidential library, if any.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The brand's weekender has a separate shoe compartment and an electronics section with a padded laptop sleeve, as well as slots, pouches, and pockets for cords, a power bank, and other travel essentials.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Nov. 2025
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Any other creation theory – hollow Earth, flat Earth, mud collection, hanging cord, corpse reuse, dreamtime, biosphere as gemstone in the ring of a galactic giant, please insert alternative here.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The silhouette featured an almond toe and stacked block heel, while the shaft made a unique statement with cinching at the ankle, a general looseness up the leg and then a lace threaded through the circumference about three-quarters of the way up, knotted in a bow as a dainty embellishment.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
30 Oct. 2025
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Alphabet spent just enough and grew enough to thread the needle for a post-earnings stock advance of more than 8%.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The post 9/11 blunders in which Cheney played a part can be tied to the rise of ISIS, perennial instability in the Middle East, the migrant crisis and the crushing debt burden ($38 trillion and counting) that looms over the US economy.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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This was tied at 20-20 through 14 minutes, until the game went tilt with a 20-5 Aztecs run to close the half.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wire. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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