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Recent Examples of trip wire
Billie Joe reached around the trip wires and spoke from his heart.
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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
There’s not a lot of research and development models precise enough to identify these trip wires.
—Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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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
There’s not a lot of research and development models precise enough to identify these trip wires.
—Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trip wire
Noun
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President Biden is also sending land mines to help Ukrainian forces slow Russia’s continuing advance in Ukraine’s east.—
Ian Bremmer,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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The package, announced Monday by the State Department, also includes more of the anti-personnel land mines that Ukraine is counting on to slow Russian and North Korean ground forces in Russia’s Kursk region.—
Tara Copp and Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The two starred in Alvarez’s 2016 web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo together along with Ebeling’s ex-girlfriend Stephanie Koenig, who also stars in English Teacher.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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No single private citizen, certainly not one whose wealth and web of businesses are directly subject to the oversight of federal authorities, has wielded such power over the machinery of the U.S. government.—
Simon Shuster,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Four tenors, four snares and two bass have been ordered through Axel Johnson.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Poaching remains a significant threat, with snares and poison traps claiming countless lives each year.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Trail cams may be easily spotted and removed – though the risk of booby traps can make this challenging – but they can quickly be replaced.—
David Hambling,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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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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“Trip wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trip%20wire. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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