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Recent Examples of trip wire
Attached to the stake was a trip wire, and attached to the trip wire was, presumably, an OZM-72 antipersonnel mine.
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Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Sounds straightforward, but both know their affair is happening in a cultural minefield where the trip wires are economic, professional and generational.
—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
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Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Sounds straightforward, but both know their affair is happening in a cultural minefield where the trip wires are economic, professional and generational.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trip wire
Noun
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree to withdraw Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel land mines, a Ukrainian lawmaker said Sunday.—
Volodymyr Yurchuk,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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Ukraine exiting anti-land-mine pact Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to withdraw Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel land mines, a Ukrainian lawmaker said Sunday.—
Volodymyr Yurchuk,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
Noun
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Judge then turned a Dansby Swanson line drive into another web gem on the next play.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Beyond talent, Microsoft and Google clashed directly in web technologies.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Wolves are killed across the Northern Rockies using steel-jawed traps, neck snares, packs of dogs and even snowmobiles.—
Jim Martin,
Denver Post,
27 June 2025
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After hundreds of years of persistent persecution—one generation of farmers learning from the previous generation to poison, snare, and shoot wolves—the animals’ near disappearance around the turn of the 20th century was celebrated throughout Europe as the end of a long, bloody, and hard-won war.—
Jonathan C. Slaght,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2025
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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.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Trip wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trip%20wire. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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