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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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Find everything from portable mini fans that make hot-weather sightseeing more comfortable to compact power banks with built-in charging cables, eliminating the need to pack extra cords.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
4 June 2026
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These tubes serve as stabilizing cables that allow flexible fibrous trunks to withstand hurricane-force winds.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
4 June 2026
Noun
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The night of round trippers started when Duran and Ceddanne hit back-to-back homers in the first inning, sending ropes to opposite sides of the field to put Boston in front 2-0.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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Move away from water, and avoid wet ropes.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2026
Verb
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In a chilling sequence, Dennis ties a garbage bag over Mallory’s head and drags her into the woods.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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The imbalance ties the hands of states trying to do what is fairest and allows states that don’t have commissions to change their maps and thus potentially their election outcomes.—
The Editorial Board,
Daily News,
29 May 2026
Verb
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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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Throughout this dense and always engrossing survey of Lean’s career in film, Thompson threads the vicissitudes of the director’s personal life, spanning six wives and various other relationships and flings.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
27 May 2026
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“Wires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wires. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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