How to Use fiber-optic in a Sentence

fiber-optic

adjective
  • Its fiber-optic plans are the fastest out of all the providers in our San Diego guide.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The first fiber-optic drones started to reach the city in October.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 27 June 2026
  • Both will include Corning fiber-optic cable as part of the new deal.
    — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The blankets have fiber-optic cables that shine blue light onto the baby's body.
    — Tolu Ajiboye, Verywell Health, 12 May 2023
  • But fiber-optic drones are not controlled remotely.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But a new fiber-optic imaging probe offers hope for improved outcomes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The first physical act was running a fiber-optic cable to a telephone pole.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026
  • This is because fiber has equal download and upload speeds, and also runs on a fiber-optic network.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • One of the challenges is that signals in fiber-optic cables degrade over distance.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 June 2025
  • Metronet and Hotwire are among the companies using funds from bonds to build more fiber-optic networks.
    — Matt Wirz, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
  • These are controlled via a fiber-optic cable, providing a secure video feed in real time and cannot be jammed.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Oh, and the bottom is lined with fiber-optic lights that mimic a constellation come nighttime.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
  • Sound waves from passing vessels subtly alter the way light travels through the fiber-optic sensors.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
  • When light is pulsed down a fiber-optic strand, small imperfections along the cable bounce a fraction of that light back toward the source.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • The entire center is wired together by 17 miles of fiber-optic cable.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Buildings are connected to the outside world by fiber-optic cables that crisscross the country and the globe.
    — Lindsay Muscato, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Russia was also able to connect the drone’s fiber-optic cable to a base unit, which was then linked to a drone operator.
    — Charbel Mallo, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
  • Cables, fiber-optic lines and satellites built and maintained by internet service providers.
    — Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Delivers fast speeds using fiber-optic cables.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The expansion will supply fiber-optic cables for Meta data centers for the next five years.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
  • Residents can choose from cable, fiber-optic and wireless services to meet their internet needs.
    — Kara McGinley, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The firm said data center spending isn’t going to let up anytime soon, which is good news for this fiber-optic cable producer.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
  • One solution has been fiber-optic drones, which connect to their operators through long cables spooling out of their tails.
    — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • There’s also a brand-new water well and fiber-optic internet that uses less energy than broadband.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2024
  • These properties of glass are why people use it to make everything from smartphone screens and fiber-optic cables to vials that hold vaccines.
    — John Mauro, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • Laser signals transmitted over fiber-optic cables or through the air can help link optical clocks together.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2023
  • Among the requirements of the new law, camps must install a fiber-optic connection to the internet, which has caused problems for camps.
    — Jack Fink, CBS News, 5 May 2026
  • In four years, the investment is expected to add 31,000 miles of fiber-optic lines across the state.
    — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Hundreds of kilometers of fiber-optic cable have already been laid to repair that destruction.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2023

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