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Recent Examples of trip wireMeanwhile, House and Senate Republicans are at odds over how to sequence President-elect Trump’s legislative ambitions next year to pocket speedy success with fewer trip wires.—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Dec. 2024 Billie Joe reached around the trip wires and spoke from his heart.—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for trip wire
In Cambodia, China has announced new funding programs for child health, nutrition, and sanitation and stepped in with a $4.4 million grant to fund the removal of land mines, all in the first six weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a freeze on USAID funding.
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Thomas J. Bollyky,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Mar. 2025
Anti-personnel land mines have caused more civilian casualties in Ukraine than any other type of land mine or explosive remnants, according to Amnesty International.
Talk into the night devolves into an intricate web of deception, seduction and revelation, where the lives of all involved may be destroyed or transformed.
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Greg Evans,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
Ivey’s coaching staff also casts a web of support to protect her from outside noise and aid her vision for the team’s present and future.
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