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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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Listen to this Article The Trump administration, which has been moving like a juggernaut across the political landscape, has hit a land mine.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
15 Feb. 2025
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Many land mines are still visible to the naked eye, but others are more sophisticated and harder to detect.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But then the genre all but disappeared at the box office, as people were getting their comedy through various web sites, social media and Marvel movies.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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On the ground floor there is also a window display dedicated to its signature web motif in green/red/green and in blue/red/blue established in the mid-1950s.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
24 May 2025
Noun
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For instance, the researchers uncovered an incident from 2008, when scientists had observed a male chimp freeing an unrelated female from a nylon snare set by hunters to trap game.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2025
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Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
14 May 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 2 Jun. 2025.
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