Examples of wire in a Sentence
Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
The same amount of e-waste–including circuit boards, wires as well as the metal, glass, and plastics that encase electronic components–ended up in landfills.
—Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2024
His team had transformed an apartment into a workshop cluttered with wires, explosives, batteries, and circuit boards.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
In a token ring LAN, shielded twisted-pair copper wires connect each computer to its upstream and downstream neighbors in an endless ring structure.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2024
Along with the student acts, the Fern Street Circus will have a variety of circus performances, such as a tight wire, puppetry, juggling and more.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
Today National Guard troops from Texas patrol the park that – now rimmed with spiraled wire – is seen as a front line in a national debate over U.S. border security.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
Maintaining training runs for AI across so many systems—all connected by wires and switches—is a huge engineering undertaking.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2024
Imagine taking two small metallic discs connected by a conducting wire.
—Giridhar Kalamangalam, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
Sitting behind the Maples Pavilion scorer’s table in early January, Tara VanDerveer was wired after a midseason practice.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
From November 2021 to January 2024, Mizuhara wired more than $16 million in unauthorized transfers from a checking account belonging to Ohtani, according to an affidavit filed with a criminal complaint.
—Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
According to psychologists, the human brain is wired to stereotype, as a way to categorize and process information.
—Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
In one prominent case, a finance manager at a Hong Kong bank wired about $25.6 million to fraudsters who used AI to pose as the worker’s bosses on a video call.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
There are multitudes out there among us who are wired to think like Korbin Albert.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
But in the end, only a fraction of it was wired, two sources say, much of it from Intel, which Forbes has learned invested $20 million, a fraction of what was reported.
—Kenrick Cai, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
In the Montgomery County case, the victim wired her first payment of $331,817.54 to a gold dealer on Feb. 21.
—Dan Morse, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Noun
Middle English wir, wyre, going back to Old English wīr, going back to Germanic *wīra-, whence Middle Low German wire "flexible metal, filigree," Old Norse vír-, in víravirki "filigree work," and (with presumed lowering of ī to ē2 before r) Old High German wiara, wiera "fine gold, ornament of gold filigree," going back to a nominal derivative with a suffix -r- from Indo-European *u̯ei̯H- "plait, wrap," whence Latin vieō, viēre "to plait, weave," Old Church Slavic poviti "to wrap up, bind," Lithuanian výti "to twist," and probably to Sanskrit vyayati "(it) covers, envelops," vīta- "covered, hidden"
Verb
Middle English *wiren (in past participle y-wyred), derivative of wyr, wire wire entry 1
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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