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
Well aware of the underground challenge, the assembly chose as its theme "All Things New," and its opening ceremonies showed a temperately turned-on effort to bridge the gulf between the traditional and the revolutionary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry is written.
From Time Magazine Archive
But not even the Audimeter can tell whether anyone is listening to a turned-on radio.
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
As yields climbed to their highest levels in decades, a previously broad-based stock-market rally was turned on its head.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Garces Perez says the agents twice sideswiped his Toyota Corolla, causing damage, before their unmarked SUVs turned on their lights and sirens.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Later that evening, the team turned on the instrument's calibration system.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
The group turned on a portable ring light while Osaka was serving, leading to a reprimand from the umpire.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
She turned on the radio and drove us down Main Street.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
