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trip wire

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as in land mine

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Recent Examples of trip wire With Partridge taking over and Notre Dame adding Brewu, Keeley and Gray through the transfer portal, a position group that felt like a trip wire one month ago now looks more like a launching pad. — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026 It was set up with a pulley system and a trip wire that would fire the crossbow when a deer’s leg tripped it. — David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025 Having some European forces on the ground as trip wires, building up economic integration. — NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 Voters have ideas Lawmakers are back in the Capitol this week with big ambitions, a messy calendar and a thousand potential trip wires, especially among Republicans who call the shots. — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trip wire

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The pledge follows land mine blasts that injured three South Korean soldiers; Seoul says North Korea planted the mines, while Pyongyang denies responsibility and threatens retaliation.

— Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Without the explosives, a land mine is just so much tin, so why not forget about the casing and go straight for the explosive?

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026

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Kinder Morgan operates a dominant, interconnected web of steel pipelines that links oversupplied shale basins directly to major demand centers and Gulf Coast export complexes.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
The full 12-company delegation spans original story IP in drama, film, animation and web novels, as well as generative AI, interactive entertainment and fan platforms.

— Deadline, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

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Four years later, Kaczynski started adding booby traps around his cabin, and throughout the 1980s, he was accused by his neighbors of poisoning their dogs, The New York Times reported in 1999.

— Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026
In the meantime, his insatiable paranoia will be exacerbated by the missing family cat, and his decision to let the alarm company booby trap the house with fog bombs will literally blow up in his face.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026

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