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n. A tightrope.
Usage examples of "tightwire".
The four passed bagpipers, poets, boxers, philosophers discoursing in tag-teams, tightwire fiddlers, clowns, caricaturists, and such.
He held himself poised in the awareness, seeing time stretch out in its weird dimension, delicately balanced yet whirling, narrow yet spread like a net gathering countless worlds and forces, a tightwire that he must walk, yet a teeter-totter on which he balanced.
An agency in an OSL environment would be forever walking a tightwire in order to remain effective and at the same time avoid risking retaliation from the OSL power group who prefer to keep mistakes covered up and to make decisions on whim.
The four passed bagpipers, poets, boxers, philosophers discoursing in tag-teams, tightwire fiddlers, clowns, caricaturists, and such.