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Jefferis' team and collaborators painstakingly analysed every nerve cell, every wire and every connection in a male fruit fly.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
About 18 months later, when another arresting wire failed on the Truman, the Navy investigation listed “high operational tempo and inadequate manning” as a “causal factor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"She's unstoppable, like a live wire," said Ice, whose blue eyes -- which gave him his call-sign -- warmed up when he looked at his wife.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He later served time in prison, pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges, but President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in October 2025.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Our dinner pails were Karo syrup cans because of their wire handles.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
She later shared images of herself in hospital with tubes and wires sticking out of her body.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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
Between the wheels is a row of ports with wires connected to all different parts.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
The scammer might have asked to have money wired to an account with a name that doesn’t match the one the scammer has been using, for instance, or promised a repayment that never arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Imam's explanation centers on the way different brain systems are wired before birth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
This development, in turn, wired the whole world together, and, without anyone really planning it, made Bangalore a suburb of Boston.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Space and energy are finite, so natural selection may favor whichever wiring system is most useful for survival in a particular environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
Customers should get their wiring checked by a professional to ensure it is safe before parting with cash, experts say.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
And she doesn’t have a birdhouse or electric wiring to distract her.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
