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

I had a long queue of files on a disk waiting to be wired to Hoagland’s terminal in Purchase.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee