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

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

Last season, off-Broadway's Public Theater presented a tribute to the hyphenated generation with a fullscale, turned-on, freaked-out, pro-love, antiwar, love-rock bein.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents�both of whom had previously been divorced �she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village.

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 Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)