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verb

past tense of wire

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Recent Examples of wired
Adjective
Most of Shelly's devices are powered through mains or wired connections, but the sensors can run on batteries. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2024 In a rehearsal room, there often isn’t the space for setting up a full wireless mic system so a wired setup is often used instead, but that could mean using a different microphone to the one that will be used on stage. Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024 Plenty of headsets are designed just for this task, with mics for team chat, wired and wireless options, and comfortable designs for hours of play. Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024 Loading your audio article Corsair turned heads last year with its Virtuoso Pro, a new wired headset that featured 50mm graphene drivers. Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wired 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wired
Adjective
  • The movie itself was widely criticized, with director Sam Taylor-Johnson facing accusations of exploiting Winehouse’s troubled personal life, but Abela earned high praise for her embodiment of who many deem one of the greatest musical talents of the 21st century.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Stellantis, which celebrated its fourth anniversary in January following the merger of Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot, has had a troubled year and is shopping for a new CEO after Tavares resigned.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But the Vikings are just as formidable — top 10 in points for and against and tied for the most takeaways in football.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The Jaguars are notably 3-9 in one-score games — tied for the most such losses in one season in the Super Bowl era, according to ESPN Stats and Information.
    Scott Phillips, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • One of my acquaintances is upset because her favorite place to get glasses is no longer in her plan’s network.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Those takeaways were an instrumental part of Denver’s formula in a 24-22 upset.
    Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Others might be more high-strung, trying to live up to the older sibling's example or carve out their own identity.
    Emily Edlynn, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Her perception of things is a lot more high-strung than mine.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
Adjective
  • John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer figured out that at low temperatures, a material’s jittery atomic lattice quiets down, so more delicate effects come through.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In the fall of 1856, a jittery, fractious republic girded itself for a presidential election that would decide its fate.
    Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The 58-acre parcel is bounded by 13th Avenue and 6th Avenue to the north and south and by Osage Street and Seminole Road to the east and west.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Golden also bounds back onto several other tallies as its sales grow exponentially.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Coin Heist, adapted from Elisa Ludwig’s YA novel, follows in the footsteps of The Breakfast Club by uniting high schoolers who otherwise wouldn’t give each other the time of day: a hacker, the headmaster’s slacker son, a football phenom on a scholarship, and an uptight brainiac.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • During Franklin’s tenure, he’s often come across publicly as too uptight.
    Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But that didn’t stop Greenbaum from being a little nervous about screening the film for Harper and Will.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Lexi starts it quite clearly a little nervous, but then gets more comfortable and by the end is perfectly embodying the silly, bratty nature of the song.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025

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“Wired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wired. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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