1
: involving great risk
a financial high-wire act
2
: daring
high-wire prose

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Erivo’s comedic high-wire act is the pièce de résistance of the Season 2 premiere, which finds Charlie drawn into the siblings’ lethal double-dealing. Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025 Getting to March this year will be more than half the fun, if Hurley, his Oura Ring and the fans’ psyche can take a few more weeks of this high-wire act. Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2025 Sure, there’s the high-wire walk/weekly escape acts of Kansas City’s regular season. Hannah Vanbiber, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 The result was a high-wire act that included noticeable wobbles in Stravinsky’s thorny Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Janacek’s eccentric Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand. Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high-wire

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of high-wire was in 1956

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“High-wire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high-wire. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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