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verb

past tense of wire

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Recent Examples of wired
Adjective
The brand is also readying high-end wired home security cameras designed to cover your home’s exterior. Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025 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 See all Example Sentences for wired 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wired
Adjective
  • Listen to this article A new management company at Carlsbad’s Windsor Pointe supportive housing project faces the daunting task of turning around the facility’s troubled reputation.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The troubled Metropolitan Detention Center jail in Brooklyn has just two doctors on staff to care for its more than 1,100 inmates, and an opening for a third physician has gone unfilled for nearly a decade.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Williams tied a career high with four made 3-pointers, and Keon Johnson tied a career high with eight assists.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • After the first quarter ended with the score tied at 22, the Jazz dominated the Heat 40-19 in the second quarter to enter halftime with a 21-point lead.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In the courtside footage, the mom — who was holding one child’s hand and had another kid on her hip — becomes visibly upset, stepping forward and moving very close to the principal.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Notre Dame must either score on defense or special teams to pull off the upset or at least set up Leonard with a short field.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, The Athletic, 20 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
  • Meanwhile, Grace provides plenty of comic relief as the jittery prisoner who manages to make snarky wisecracks even while on the verge of dying.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Dreux and Alyssa have what looks like a familiar dynamic: Dreux the uptight one in search of control, Alyssa the loosey-goosey one urging her friend to worry less.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Some parents are nervous to send their kids back to the center, given the air quality concerns and its proximity to the burn area.
    Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Ellie is nervous, and so naturally, her dead lesbian aunt manifests as an unwanted spiritual gay guide.
    Sadie Collins, Them, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Wired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wired. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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