Example Sentences
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“Seeing that face with all the cables and all the wires and all the things going on, it just kind of encompasses all of it and takes it right back,” he said.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
A safe cable contains wires that enable communication with the phone’s battery management system, which monitors temperature, tracks voltage and detects short circuits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Buildings will still have pipes running through them, they'll still have wires running through them," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Teams also use seismic and acoustic listening devices, which resemble little pots or cans on wires linked up to devices, to try to locate survivors.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
“By the slightest margin of chance,” he’d later admit, “literally the failure of two wires to cross, a nuclear explosion was averted.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
