How to Use rewire in a Sentence

rewire

verb
  • The best valet stands in town rewire your brain and set you in the proper mood for the night.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • If this class of drugs rewires our brains and guts to think of food as just sustenance, the world will be so sad.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Still, flying to Cancun for a week of sun and sand is not going to rewire your brain.
    Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2023
  • Adults can learn about rewiring lights, or chat with plumbers and roofers about their home remodeling projects.
    Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In just four little squares, Pyle was able to poke fun at the strangeness of human life by rewiring the way people think about language.
    Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps mindfulness could help rewire the OCD circuit in the brain.
    Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
  • Just drop some acid, the thinking goes, and your brain will rewire itself—you’ll be smarter, fitter, more creative, and self-aware.
    Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Record rainfall in Los Angeles this spring has rewired the schedules of most high school baseball and softball teams.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Technicians arrived early to rewire the house and install the units.
    Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Small said the study is the first to demonstrate in humans that even small dietary changes can rewire brain circuits and increase the long-term risk of overeating or weight gain.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Wise has spent the past few decades trying to rewire the way Americans conceive of animal rights.
    Molly Young, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Annie and Jeffery did the same to rewire and add geothermal systems.
    Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Mastering both can rewire your brain to a more helpful channel and keep it there through any crisis.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Both then and now, experts argued that a new technology was on the verge of rewiring the global economy.
    Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 12 June 2023
  • If a delay is caught and addressed early enough, the brain is better able to rewire itself where needed.
    USA Today, 15 June 2022
  • That often involves finding your wants and needs, learning to trust others, and rewiring how your brain views attachment and self-worth.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 24 July 2023
  • It's been a hard, strange summer, which is why a long weekend filled with soothing ocean sounds and engaging beach reads can help rewire your brain just in time for fall.
    Talia Abbas, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Your brain will have its own way of processing this accident, and your brain can also rewire itself again to heal.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The church also hired an electrician, Riad Nasry, the owner of Alpha Electric, to rewire the room.
    Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Through a bunch of parallel-universe hijinks, Jughead is able to rewire the universe and return to Riverdale proper.
    Kaitlin Reilly, Vulture, 13 July 2022
  • But in the sightless, these same neurons can rewire themselves to process other types of information.
    David Eagleman, Time, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Business leaders can and should help rewire Gen Z to support their mental health and move them to a mindset that failure is a building block rather than a roadblock.
    Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The Commission is expected to lay out programs to boost the use of renewables and rewire the bloc’s energy imports.
    Laurence Norman, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • How daily activity rewires the brain Just as there is no one-size-fits-all brain injury, there is also no single path toward brain health.
    Hilary A. Diefenbach, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • In some cases, Covid also appears to rewire a baby’s immune response, Nielsen-Saines said.
    NBC News, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Although many of the larval neurons in the study endured, the part of the insect brain that Truman’s group examined was dramatically rewired.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • The brains of longtime musicians are transformed by years of practice, much as playing basketball or juggling can rewire the brain.
    Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010
  • Read full article All other parts of the hospital need to be rewired, and supply chain delays have hampered the arrival of all the necessary equipment.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • For some, the pandemic has allowed for space to begin taking those steps to rewire, and even expand, our neural pathways to build healthy habits for a happier and safer lives.
    Kara Fox, CNN, 11 May 2021
  • The brain is actually rewiring itself during menopause.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024

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