turned-on
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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
Using a mix of guitars and drums, they now turn psychedelic with swooning cadences, spooky buzzes and reverberating thuds, suitably orchestrating such turned-on titles as Psyched Out and Endless Dream.
From Time Magazine Archive
But not even the Audimeter can tell whether anyone is listening to a turned-on radio.
From Time Magazine Archive
The heroes of the New Radicals, as you rightly pointed out, are not turned-on, tuned-out dreamers like Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg.
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 Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
The vineyard has a system of piping spread across 1.85 hectares of the vines, which steadily drips water onto the ground around the plants' roots, and is turned on every few days.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“They only want the lights to be turned on again,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Facing left-handed Jovani Morán, Ohtani turned on a changeup and sent it into the right-field stands for a two-run homer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
When it tried to relight 13 engines for a landing burn, only some turned on, leading to the booster having a hard splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
When the superintendent and the assistant had turned on us, they’d turned their backs on her.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
