be wired

Example Sentences

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The adoption of sound would require a transformation of the industry’s economic structure: Theaters would need to be wired, sound studios would need to be built, foreign sales would fall off a cliff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

“This is something people need to understand. You have to be wired properly.”

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

And then there’s the scurrilously under-handed ripoff in which a grandparent gets a call saying a grandchild has been involved in an accident or some other emergency, and money must be wired immediately.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2023

A blueprint could never, for example, dictate how every one of our 86 billion neurons should be wired up.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

And even so, they would all have to be wired together, intricately and delicately, as we are, communicating with each other, talking incessantly, listening.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas