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

At present, the e-skin must still be wired to an external power source, but Bao hopes ultimately to develop a wireless device.

From Scientific American • May 23, 2023

No matter how smart the doctors are, or no matter what medication I take, I’ll always somewhere inside myself be wired wrong and nothing can be done about it.

From "Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key" by Jack Gantos