as in wires
a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things
a mass of cables connecting the office computers to the main server
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Recent Examples of cables
Videos and images circulating on social media show BASE jumpers leaping from El Capitan, unauthorized campers occupying closed campgrounds, and climbers scaling Half Dome’s cables without permits — all in violation of park regulations.
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Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
The capacity of cables, of course, has grown as well.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Consider taking a winter storm kit along with you, including such items as tire chains, booster cables, flashlight, shovel, blankets and extra clothing.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Recently, Finnish special forces seized a Russian shadow tanker and investigated whether it had been involved in cutting undersea cables.
—James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
This is easily fixed by supplying your own USB-C cables or purchasing a longer split one.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Turning cables into giant sonar arrays DAS works by using standard fiber-optic cables as long chains of acoustic sensors.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Natural gas pipelines, power cables and internet cables have all been damaged, with ultimate responsibility still murky and subject to sprawling pan-national investigations.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
Workers process electronic products such as data cables at an electronics factory in the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperative Industrial Park in Rongan county, Liuzhou city, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on April 8, 2025.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
The capacity of cables, of course, has grown as well.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Consider taking a winter storm kit along with you, including such items as tire chains, booster cables, flashlight, shovel, blankets and extra clothing.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Recently, Finnish special forces seized a Russian shadow tanker and investigated whether it had been involved in cutting undersea cables.
—James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
This is easily fixed by supplying your own USB-C cables or purchasing a longer split one.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Turning cables into giant sonar arrays DAS works by using standard fiber-optic cables as long chains of acoustic sensors.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Natural gas pipelines, power cables and internet cables have all been damaged, with ultimate responsibility still murky and subject to sprawling pan-national investigations.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
Workers process electronic products such as data cables at an electronics factory in the Guangdong-Guangxi Cooperative Industrial Park in Rongan county, Liuzhou city, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on April 8, 2025.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cables
Noun
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Altman’s tech origin story is founding a social-media app with a fashionably missing vowel; AMD CEO Lisa Su’s involves loose wires and, later, the world’s top prize in microelectronics.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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This bra has wide straps, side-smoothing panels, and an allover stretchy fit — sans wires poking you in the ribcage.—
Jeaneen Russell,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The vultures' dwellings also held ropes, horse tack and thousands of bone fragments and eggshells.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Flux ropes in the solar wind range from 3,000 to 6 million miles in width.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Avoid entering basements or rooms where electrical outlets or cords are submerged in water.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Oct. 2025
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Avoid basements or rooms where water has submerged electrical outlets or cords.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Cables.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cables. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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