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She describes it as if "heated barbed wire" were wrapped around her abdomen: "It's like my organs are being pulled apart."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Polish and German soldiers worked for five weeks at the frontier to dig trenches, lay barbed wire and place long lines of concrete barriers known as "hedgehogs" across the landscape.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The students crouch over monitors, assemble flight hardware, run orbital simulations, wire power systems and design satellite-tracking stations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Michigan State’s Yeargain, writing in the Missouri Law Review in 2020 about fake polls affecting prediction markets, argued that publishing fake polls to influence betting markets was either commodities fraud or wire fraud, or both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
If I sold that one, just think: I could buy more wire, maybe better hinges than the ones we pulled out of a set of cabinets someone was just throwing out last weekend...
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
The new control method takes advantage of nanoscale antenna wires built into the robot.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
“There are PVC pipes, wires and a railway tie underneath the water and occasionally some metal.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“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
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
Tiny wires poked Chess’s fingers, but as far as he could tell, Emma had handed him nothing but junk.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Nearby, a table-tennis-playing humanoid the height of a 10-year-old child was wired to the internet as it returned a ball to its human opponent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
A July trip to Target to get everything on her list — among the items, two packs of wired headphones, Band-Aids, eight folders and four composition notebooks — cost about $230.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Whether it's digital cameras, iPods or wired earphones, does a renewed love for early-digital gadgets among some young people tell us something more?
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Rupireddy wired over money before the end of the year, including $17,250 to take part in a fund that held shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
According to AltaVista, source of all knowledge, though surrounding suburbs were wired, no service was even planned for Richton Park.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
A single 1-gigawatt AI facility can require tens of thousands of tons of copper for wiring, cooling and power distribution.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The internet as we knew it might have been torn down to the studs by Silicon Valley bigwigs looking to sell the wiring for scrap, but the bones are still good.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
It specifically raised concerns that "no department within NHSGGC" was performing checks on wiring and earth bonding for electrical equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spacecraft's top deck has been aligned, while its internal wiring is undergoing extensive testing before closeout panels are installed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
He clawed again for the copper and looped the wiring around his hand to counteract its slickness.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
