cable
Example Sentences
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Nato governments are on high alert for any signs that Russia is cutting the undersea cables that carry the electronic traffic that keeps Western society going.
From BBC
Last year, it installed an acoustic barrier to shield bats from noise while replacing underground cables.
The crew blow-torched the fasteners and released the cables that held the crane to the ship, while workers on land laid temporary rails across the wharf.
In February, a tornado, with winds of up to 85 mph, tore roofs off mobile homes in Oxnard and ripped power cables to the ground.
From Los Angeles Times
In the late 1990s, a large amount of capital was used to install dark fiber— unused fiberoptic cables—capacity that far exceeded demand.
From Barron's
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