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Recent Examples of wires
Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Inmates reported limited access to hygiene supplies and noted that loose wires were hanging from the ceiling due to unfinished visitation kiosks during the first few days of operation.
—Ben Wheeler
june 4, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
Consider storage containers for wires and electrical outlets, and organize visible pantry items in containers.
—Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026
Instead of routing electricity through copper wires, photonic chips guide light through microscopic channels called waveguides etched into a wafer.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
The devices Microsoft is using have two parallel wires and rely on measuring the parity of the pair (both with one extra electron, both without, or a mixed state) using quantum dots.
—ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
Dentists would manually tie individual teeth to the appliance using either silk threads or thin metal wires.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
Lots of wires, lots of insane stunts.
—Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
A lot of their work had nothing to do with smoothing out wires or big leaps across buildings in bravura fight sequences.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 3 June 2026
Noun
After his death, Ashe's lawyer DeMille (Oded Fehr) returns the video of Coop stealing that the billionaire had kept as blackmail, and wires Coop the $600 million that Coop had previously returned to Ashe's account.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Inmates reported limited access to hygiene supplies and noted that loose wires were hanging from the ceiling due to unfinished visitation kiosks during the first few days of operation.
—Ben Wheeler
june 4, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
Consider storage containers for wires and electrical outlets, and organize visible pantry items in containers.
—Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026
Instead of routing electricity through copper wires, photonic chips guide light through microscopic channels called waveguides etched into a wafer.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
The devices Microsoft is using have two parallel wires and rely on measuring the parity of the pair (both with one extra electron, both without, or a mixed state) using quantum dots.
—ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
Dentists would manually tie individual teeth to the appliance using either silk threads or thin metal wires.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 June 2026
Lots of wires, lots of insane stunts.
—Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026
A lot of their work had nothing to do with smoothing out wires or big leaps across buildings in bravura fight sequences.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wires
Noun
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PennDOT message boards and cameras for the Parkway East are out of service after someone vandalized fiber optic cables.—
Patrick Damp,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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These ambitions have been heightened by the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has revealed that subsea cables are just as vulnerable to geopolitical conflict as oil tankers.—
Melissa Hancock,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
Verb
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That experiential angle ties the whole 2026 fragrance conversation together.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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That emphasis on language may seem surprising, but Ingram ties it directly to neuroscience.—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Children are allowed from 6 months, though the line recommends ages 10 and up; these are working ships, after all, with open decks, ropes, rigging, and frequent tendering.—
Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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However, when Moné had her back turned, Hazuki dove through the ropes and launched her own attack.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
Verb
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Joy threads through every jazz refrain.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
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The rest lived in someone's memory, in the institutional knowledge of whoever had been there longest or in old email threads no one wanted to dig through.—
Omer Qureshi,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Wires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wires. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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