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Recent Examples of trip wire
Sounds straightforward, but both know their affair is happening in a cultural minefield where the trip wires are economic, professional and generational.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
But Trump was hesitant to navigate the fight so early in his presidency, viewing the debt ceiling as a political trip wire.
—David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trip wire
Noun
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Many land mines are still visible to the naked eye, but others are more sophisticated and harder to detect.—
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Many land mines are visible to the naked eye, but others are more sophisticated and harder to detect.—
Noun
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One web company, Meta, has explored Ethernet fabrics for AI clusters as well as InfiniBand, an alternative networking standard pioneered partly by Mellanox, a networking hardware maker that Nvidia acquired for $7 billion in 2020.—
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Proton Mail wipes out web beacons, which are images that have no purpose beyond penetrating your privacy.—
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We all have been bedeviled at times by bureaucratic snafus (and snares), and so improvement is necessary.—
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From sticky asphalt graves to dinosaur-eating quicksand, these sites reveal how nature sometimes sets its own snares, and how life—on a mass scale—meets its end.—
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Last month gangs burned or confiscated at least a half-dozen armored carriers belonging to the police and the mission after setting booby traps and catching cops off guard.—
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Police said the suspect, identified as Arthur Tabuchi, was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation and faces charges of assembling, placing and maintaining a booby trap.—
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“Trip wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trip%20wire. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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