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verb

past tense of wire

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of wired
Adjective
Coutts took on Kesha’s rap bridge, keeping one of the song’s most recognisable moments intact, while the group leaned into their own aesthetic with wired headphones and bold red-and-black styling. Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2025 The wired mechanical keyboard uses Cherry MX Brown switches and is backlit in the full RGB range. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025 There's also Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity and USB-C wired mode. New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2025 As mentioned above, lightning has the potential to travel through your home's wiring, which can damage your wired appliances and pose a safety risk to anyone using the device. Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for wired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wired
Adjective
  • Of course, other corporations have been down a similarly troubled road in recent years.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The filing is known in Italy as a CNC, and offers troubled companies the time and space to restructure, and chart a path forward.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two minutes later, Sporting’s Santiago Muñoz threaded a perfect pass to Toye, who hit a low shot with his left foot past Steffen for a 3-2 lead.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Just as scientific knowledge is threaded into our everyday experience and shapes our subjective realities—the evolving genre of science documentary is increasingly centering on evocative, emotionally resonant approaches that connect with audiences.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The team behind the research noted that many of these genes are tied to developmental delay, which may have played a role in the slower pace of postnatal brain growth in humans compared to chimpanzees.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In this 2024 summer blockbuster, Miami's favorite bantering detectives go on a high-stakes mission to clear their late captain's name after he's wrongfully tied to a drug conspiracy.
    Emy LaCroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There have been some instances, however, when an upset crayfish comes home from a hard day of crayfishing only to have to kick out a frog and cap the burrow.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, for an AI that claims someone is going into something bad, but the AI has computationally misjudged the circumstance, users are bound to howl and get upset with the AI and the AI maker.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • From embattled and high-strung romances to one three-time divorcée, here's a look at her relationship timeline.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Vest has always been high-strung, prone to wearing emotion on his sleeve.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Back in his Talking Head-fronting days, the euphoria was the jittery kind.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The duo begin a frantic game of hide-and-seek, with the rabbit running from one side of the tree to the other as the fawn bounds after it.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Her most recent project bounds up multiple tallies and even reappears on one.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025

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“Wired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wired. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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