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Recent Examples of wire
Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
For example, some kits have meters that must be wired into a home’s circuit breaker.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
Building crews are also grafting in the summer heat to erect poles and wires covered with fishing nets – to cover more than 100 miles of Zaporizhzhia’s roads with anti-drone nets, some made from old-fashioned fishing nets.
—Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
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Noun
North Korean officials wired Wen $2 million to get the firearms and other items.
—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
For example, some kits have meters that must be wired into a home’s circuit breaker.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
Drake Maye, Joshua Dobbs The Patriots should look for a third quarterback on the waiver wire on Wednesday morning.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2025
Building crews are also grafting in the summer heat to erect poles and wires covered with fishing nets – to cover more than 100 miles of Zaporizhzhia’s roads with anti-drone nets, some made from old-fashioned fishing nets.
—Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wire
Noun
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A lot of the earliest work has been behind the walls: new plumbing, new electrical wiring, new internet cables, new water mains, at a cost of millions.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Miami residents have access to various affordable internet providers offering fiber, cable, 5G wireless, and satellite options.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Barrosa believes that the future of electric vehicle charging is corded, via plugs, not induction, and that charging will happen at exceptionally high rates compared to what is available today.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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Thread the rope or cord through the holes in the pool noodle pieces, connecting them.—
Maryal Miller Carter,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Answer: The apprentice studied the lumpy ropes, then struck flint to steel.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The woman was loaded into a litter and carried up the steep embankment with a rope system, deputies said.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacbee.com,
27 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Corrections officers strap the black-and-blue mask with a plexiglass face shield to the bound inmate, Hood said, removing his glasses and instructing another person present strap the mask tightly to his face, before breathing deeply.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Aug. 2025
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Then two people showed up with what looked like bombs strapped to their torsos.—
Jesse Kirsch,
NBC news,
9 Aug. 2025
Verb
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There are ball rolls, drag-backs and sharp-angled passes, all designed to manipulate opposition defenders and thread the ball through the spaces his movement creates.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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Simply create a small loop at the end of your wire before threading on beads.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The Bulls also excel at taking the ball away, forcing 25 turnovers in 2024, which tied for the 13th-most in the nation last year.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Aug. 2025
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Adames homered twice in his return to Milwaukee on Friday, with his second homer in the eighth inning starting a comeback that saw the Giants tie the game in the top of the ninth.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wire. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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