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Recent Examples of trip wire
About 20 sites on the volcano’s slopes and the two paths identified as most at risk of a lahar now feature broadband seismometers that transmit real-time data and other sensors including trip wires, infrasound sensors, web cameras and GPS receivers.
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 June 2024
Traveling backward through the battle, inverted Pattinson sees the baddies setting up a trip wire at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the Algorithm.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
There’s not a lot of research and development models precise enough to identify these trip wires.
—Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Russia’s strongholds in the east and south have been densely mined with antitank and antipersonnel mines and trip wires in areas from three to 10 miles deep.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
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Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 June 2024
Traveling backward through the battle, inverted Pattinson sees the baddies setting up a trip wire at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the Algorithm.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
There’s not a lot of research and development models precise enough to identify these trip wires.
—Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
Russia’s strongholds in the east and south have been densely mined with antitank and antipersonnel mines and trip wires in areas from three to 10 miles deep.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trip wire
Noun
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The Biden administration’s decision to send antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine in November 2024 was another case of the United States disregarding supposedly universal norms.—
Sarah Yager,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Jubair was taught how to pull the pin of a grenade and to assemble a land mine.—
Adam Ferguson,
New York Times,
28 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Business TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban Trump's executive order was enough for Oracle, and other web infrastructure companies, to restore TikTok's services.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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Vogue,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The ebullient thrum of staccato snares, thumping sousaphones, and tramping shoes all acting in unison filled the gray morning air in the parking lot outside Angel Stadium recently.—
Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2024
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That didn’t prevent the first tribal project to come along — the Yakama Nation’s — from getting caught in a snare of bureaucracy.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
20 Sep. 2024
Noun
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For example, booby traps near tunnel shafts indicate the presence of the enemy, but there is no enemy in sight, and when tunnels are finally penetrated, the enemy has moved to a different part of the tunnel network.—
Daphné Richemond-Barak,
Foreign Affairs,
6 June 2024
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And that does not even consider the likelihood of a beacon which is also a booby trap. Tagging and tracking, with radio beacons or other means, looks like another example of the new possibilities opened up by drone warfare.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
29 Nov. 2024
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“Trip wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trip%20wire. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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