turned-on
Example Sentences
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This is because DNA contains so-called enhancers, "switches" that ensure that the right genes are turned-on in the right cells at the right time.
From Science Daily • Oct. 31, 2023
Even though symphony-going is not dominated by the rich to the extent that it was 40 years ago, it is still a formal experience that most turned-on youth regard as static, outmoded and irrelevant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last season, off-Broadway's Public Theater presented a tribute to the hyphenated generation with a fullscale, turned-on, freaked-out, pro-love, antiwar, love-rock bein.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents�both of whom had previously been divorced �she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village.
From Time Magazine Archive
What was the significance of the broken incandescent burner, the turned-on gas, and the faint mark under the window?
From The Shrieking Pit by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
