wire
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Induction happens when the magnetic field of a nearby live wire causes power to jump to inactive equipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Underneath the quiet sits a live wire: the “Magnificent Seven,” nearly left for dead after a punishing first half of 2026, but quietly coming back to life in the past two weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
Norway’s coach remains upset about a ball that he believes hit a wire holding a mid-air camera during the buildup to England’s first goal on Saturday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Cottrell, 32, who admitted a count of wire fraud in the United States in 2017, is a long-standing ally of Farage.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
He could write up his elaborate thoughts and wait for people to read them and wire him their money to handle.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
“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
You might think of a cable as a wire but it is actually a bundle of wires.
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
“Not with just some wires and pieces of metal.”
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
LA28 plans to use nearly all of the soundstages, which are equipped with dedicated set lighting power, high-capacity silent air conditioning, high-speed wired and wireless internet, and adjoining production suites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
We’re wired to pay more attention to bad news, and that kind of content will find its way to us one way or another.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 2026
We’re just not wired to think about mean reversion.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Was I too much my mother’s daughter, wired not only with the same taste, but also the same fears?
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
For investors hunting the Tier 1 suppliers of physical AI, the layers Nvidia is wiring up sort into a few buckets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Damian and his PhD student Danny Walmsley spend about 15 minutes wiring me up as I slowly morph into some kind of partially robotic lifeform.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Boeing pieces together gimbals, circuit boards and wiring for the seekers in the missile’s nose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
