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

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)