turned-on

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Even though symphony-going is not dominated by the rich to the extent that it was 40 years ago, it is still a formal experience that most turned-on youth regard as static, outmoded and irrelevant.

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)