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line

[lahyn] / laɪn /


NOUN
cord, rope
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NOUN
written communication
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In a February 2025 letter to state regulators, Edison said it had detected a single fault on a line more than five miles away from Altadena about 6:11 p.m. on the night the fire ignited.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Kim has repeatedly vowed never to give up his nuclear arsenal, and his powerful sister said before Xi's visit that the programme was Pyongyang's "line of no retreat".

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

“Not a lot of line of sight into training—which they’re all terrified of.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

And I think it's just the line that you take, which is the same line we've all taken for years, where you come in, you kind of cut part of the white line.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

She glanced back, and even though they’d made it to the front, the line seemed to have grown even longer.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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