plug into
Example Sentences
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It sounds like a crackpot invention advertised on the back of an old comic book: DIY solar panels you plug into a standard wall outlet to pump electricity into your home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
To solve the problem, they created a square-shaped device that could plug into a smartphone’s headphone jack and read credit cards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
All the attention on Big Tech’s earnings this week show that AI is still the hottest game in town, to the benefit of any company that can plug into it.
From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025
Everything is for sale in Alex Rivera’s 2008 sci-fi feature “Sleep Dealer,” in which young, expendable workers from the Global South plug into machines that power the international economy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
Our job was not in itself complicated: Answer the line, match the code name to a number, insert the right plug into the right jack, connect the telephone call.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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