as in to cord
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Recent Examples of wire
Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Place turkey on a wire rack set inside a rimmed baking sheet.
—Nicole Hopper, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Douglass agreed, lying to her bank again, and wired the $50,000.
—Daryl Perry, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2024
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Noun
With the trade deadline approaching Tuesday, the Rams need to lean on their never-waver wire, guys such as Matthew Stafford and Demarcus Robinson — who combined for the winning touchdown in overtime — and Cooper Kupp making a key block to give the quarterback an extra half-second of protection.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Place turkey on a wire rack set inside a rimmed baking sheet.
—Nicole Hopper, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
Verb
Our brain’s frontal lobe is wired for exactly this activity.
—Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Douglass agreed, lying to her bank again, and wired the $50,000.
—Daryl Perry, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wire
Noun
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To be sure, the other major reason for the decline is because there are simply far fewer people watching cable TV at all than there were even five years ago.Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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The network coverage echoed the legacy print media’s coverage of the race, as well as cable TV news.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
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Just keep in mind that it’s corded, which has some pros and cons.Sandi Schwartz, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2024
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Lively sported a moss corded lace halter dress from Michael Kors’ spring 2025 collection, which debuted in September during New York Fashion Week.Hannah Malach, WWD, 20 Oct. 2024
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His feet were tied with rope, and his head battered in.Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
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After an impressive match, Rollins hit Reed with a Super Curb Stomp off the top rope to score a pinfall victory.David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
Verb
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Tristan is a dapper, attractive, strapping young man who comes across as a younger brother of sorts.Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
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Wrapping up an extended 235-day mission, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and undocked from the International Space Station on Wednesday, targeting a pre-dawn Friday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.William Harwood, CBS News, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Many have been restored, re-illuminated and deeply threaded into the city’s fabric via nostalgia or necessity.Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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Note that this may mean threading them through an inconspicuous piece of cushion fabric.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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Boost’s fastest downloads, up to 1Gbps, come on phones such as Samsung’s Galaxy S24 that support four-channel carrier aggregation, in which the network ties multiple 5G channels together to maximize throughput.Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
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The Niners enter Sunday tied with the Rams for second in the NFC West at 4-4.Michael Nowels, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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“Wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wire. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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