How to Use rewire in a Sentence
rewire
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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 -
The failure rewired Lyles’ approach and set him up for the success of these past three years.
— Sean Gregory, TIME, 27 June 2024 -
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 -
The units have since been stripped to the studs, and electricians are currently working to rewire.
— Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024 -
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 -
Can Finneas ever see a world in which the brother-sister duo who rewired pop don’t work together?
— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024 -
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 -
At 22, she’s already rewired the way pop is experienced.
— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024 -
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 -
Dell computers is gonna, basically, we’re have to rip out all the server farms and rewire them.
— Andy Mills, Quartz, 20 June 2024 -
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 -
The existing station fixtures have to be rewired in order to accept LEDs, Crichlow said, so the job is not as simple as swapping bulbs.
— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024 -
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 -
So why the insistence from Haidt and others that smartphones dangerously rewire the brain?
— Anthony Vaccaro, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024 -
Our strategy starts with rewiring the foundation of our city to ensure opportunity can finally spread across the five boroughs.
— Maria Torres-Springer, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2024
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