wired
Example Sentences
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“This is in his DNA. It’s how he’s wired.”
From Los Angeles Times
Researchers on the ground were able to access the room, and found the camera - lens pointed at the bed - hidden in the wall ventilation unit and wired into the building's electricity supply.
From BBC
"I wonder if there's something wired in us where we go, ‘let's find the problem, let's find a threat and then we'll negate the threat’."
From BBC
It also might be the key to keeping your heat on: A gas heating system often has electrical controls wired into your home’s main circuitry.
Indeed, it seems we are wired to perform a kind of deep-seated method acting in social situations, “using information that doesn’t need to be taken into consciousness, thought about, or inferred,” Prochazhkova says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
