What is the description of razor wire?

30 Apr.,2024

 

RAZOR WIRE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

razor wire

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Not all care can be provided behind the razor wire.

From OregonLive.com

In came the electric fences and razor wire and rottweilers.

From Wired

Razor wire and patrol boats are now part of the land-and seascape.

From NPR

Their faithful ringed it with razor wire and bamboo spikes and refused to leave until the government called new elections.

From NPR

Grove scaled a fence and climber over razor wire to make his getaway.

From New York Daily News

He was able to climb over razor wire.

From Washington Post

There's seemingly as much razor wire as there is deco-style glass brick.

From Washington Post

Razor wire around the roof near where the inmates escaped.

From OCRegister

There are guard towers at each corner of the prison compound, which is illuminated at night and protected by a ring of concrete barriers topped with razor wire.

From CBS News

The venue advertises its walled building as having security features that include guard towers, razor wire, roving patrols and teams to search all vehicles entering the premises.

From CNN

Then it turns him into a giant robot that builds a wall topped with razor wire, flies into space and destroys the earth with a mega-laser blast.

From Los Angeles Times

Some of the trucks had razor wire.

From CNN

Coiled razor wire made already ugly buildings resemble bunkers.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

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Razor wire Definition & Meaning

Recent Examples on the Web

As part of a broader, multi-billion-dollar campaign known as Operation Lone Star, Abbott has instructed state National Guard troops to put up concertina and razor wire, as well as other barriers, along parts of Texas' border with Mexico.

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court allowed the administration to remove razor wire barriers that Texas erected along a 29-mile stretch of the Rio Grande meant to block migrants at the Southwest border.

Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024

Late last year, Mexican officials installed a chain-link fence reinforced with razor wire at the top and bottom along a stretch of the Tijuana River channel in response to mass crossing incidents reported in the area.

Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024

National Guard members have also installed barricades and razor wire.

Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Feb. 2024

The Supreme Court, halfheartedly stepped in with a 5-4 ruling to say that federal officials could remove the razor wire that Abbott had ordered installed.

TIME, 1 Feb. 2024

But Mayorkas disputed Abbott's claim on Friday, noting that some stretches of the Texas-Mexico border were fortified with razor wire late last year, when migrant crossings were soaring to record levels, including in the Texas border town of Eagle Pass.

Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024

But reams of razor wire installed by the Texas National Guard, at the governor's direction, remain on the banks of the Rio Grande in El Paso.

Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024

First, troops unspooled razor wire and deployed river buoys (more on that below).

Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024

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