unplugged
Example Sentences
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When the toys use messaging apps to control their owners in ways that go terrifyingly unnoticed, humankind itself seems to be blundering about with its brain unplugged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
She claimed she was off work and home alone—that she had unplugged her phone and gone to bed.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
We were unplugged by necessity, by force majeure, by decree of Xcel Energy Inc., and compelled to set aside our screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
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.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
The men cursed, and shook their fingers at the television and pounded the radio, until Aunt Zo unplugged them.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
