be wired

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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

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

Its user interface allows individual sounds to be wired together like components in an electrical circuit.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 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