unplugged

Worse, it hasn’t occurred to him to think past the triumph of his product launch, that his Creature can’t be readily unplugged.

In 2020, economist Paul Milgrom unplugged the phone when the Nobel committee called - in the middle of the night - to tell him he had won the Nobel for economics.

And it seems that for most people, being unplugged and out in the world would be a dealbreaker.

At his very final stop in the far West, in the isolation of Victoria, Vancouver Island, with only half an hour of campaigning allowed, Carney went "unplugged" among supporters.

They unplugged the hard drive in my computer and left that there — a weird act of charity, or something?