plugged-in

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plugged-in
Adjective
  • Everyone’s putting on a cool, with-it surface while paddling like mad underneath.
    Olivia Waite, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The line felt dumb and flaccid, derivative in an irritating rather than with-it sense, and lacking the transgression found in good gallows humor.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Patients should be sure to report symptoms to their clinicians, and clinicians need to be vigilant and consider Legionnaires’ disease as a possibility.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Leaders must stay vigilant against economic volatility and global health crises.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Crews are remaining alert to the likely possibility of finding additional starts in the next few days.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • As of Wednesday afternoon, the boy was conscious and alert and listed in stable condition, Gunn said.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Kirk Baxter’s arrhythmic cutting is designed around quicksilver shifts that, along with Barry Ackroyd’s restlessly attentive, mostly handheld camerawork, allow Bigelow to redirect our attention with virtuoso command.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • By combining exterior acoustic sensing with interior monitoring, The Hearing Car shows how vehicles can evolve beyond cameras and radar to become truly attentive machines.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The 17-year-old joins a steady stream of fighters on mats spattered with sweat, blood and occasional tears to spar under the watchful eye of Mansouri, a former professional MMA fighter who founded the space in 2020.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The church that three days before was filled with excited students and watchful teachers at the start of a new school year is now a crime scene.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Plugged-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plugged-in. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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