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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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China has provided a grant to help a Cambodian project clearing land mines and unexploded bombs days after the freeze on payments by USAID to its partners had forced it to suspend work, the head of the group said.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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For most movies, becoming the villain of their respective Oscars season is like stepping on a land mine.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The survey polled 1,033 adults via web, phone and field interviews from Feb. 4 -12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
3 Mar. 2025
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Productivity and Content Creation Tests Our primary overall benchmark, UL's PCMark 10, tests a system in productivity apps such as web browsing, word processing, and spreadsheet work.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The snare sound, for example, was the thin, ticky-ticky style originally popularized in hip-hop recordings, instead of Nir Z’s thicker snare pops.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
29 Jan. 2025
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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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Jun-ho’s drone picks up on a door on the ground that turns out to be a booby trap that kills one person and injures another.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
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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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“Trip wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trip%20wire. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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