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
I think you have to be wired a certain way to want to do something like this because it’s unbelievably difficult.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2024
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
“We could try to get out through the basement, but that may be wired also. Or you could run from here and I could distract anyone who saw us.”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
