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  • noun Plural form of wireless.

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Examples

  • The impact of his words seemed to lose little if anything for having to be routed for many of his listeners through a very efficient system of simultaneous translation on the little wirelesses provided for all who didn't understand Spanish.

    Pointy Stick Diplomacy: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • “You still putting your faith in those wirelesses your uncle was going to have zigzagging round?”

    Flappers and Philosophers 2003

  • On the 15th, his car had been shot up by Allied fighter-bombers, his wirelesses destroyed, and he was cut off from all contact with OKW or with his own forces for some hours.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • On the 15th, his car had been shot up by Allied fighter-bombers, his wirelesses destroyed, and he was cut off from all contact with OKW or with his own forces for some hours.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • On the 15th, his car had been shot up by Allied fighter-bombers, his wirelesses destroyed, and he was cut off from all contact with OKW or with his own forces for some hours.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • On the 15th, his car had been shot up by Allied fighter-bombers, his wirelesses destroyed, and he was cut off from all contact with OKW or with his own forces for some hours.

    Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

  • "Thou knowest that wirelesses are forbidden by the Japanese."

    King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

  • "Well, Peter Watting's very good with wirelesses," said the little girl.

    The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1949

  • One was left with the general impression that the Poles deserved to have their bottoms smacked for doing what all the Allied wirelesses had been urging them to do for years past, and that they would not be given and did not deserve to be given any help from outside.

    As I Please 1944

  • If, in the meantime, the German admiral wirelesses his Pernambuco agent, 'Send a jag of coal into the Indian Ocean,' to the Indian Ocean goes the

    Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

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